From Teaching Open Source

[edit] Articles about and useful in Teaching Open Source

• How to start contributing to or using Open Source Software
• Building Communities (at OSS Watch)
• Building a community around your open source project (at RedHat Magazine)
• Free Software Project Management HOWTO
• Contributing to Open Source Projects HOWTO
• Producing Open Source Software A book about running open source projects.

[edit] Scholarly work on open source communities

Helpful in understanding how such communities have been studied from a non-TOS focused point of view, for writing up TOS-focused papers.

• Gaby Sadowsky-Rasters, e.g. her PhD thesis "Communication and Collaboration in Virtual Teams - Did we get the message?" http://webdoc.ubn.ru.nl/mono/r/rasters_g/commancoi.pdf, and book, http://www.amazon.com/Communication-Cooperation-Virtual-Workplace-Computer-Mediated-Communication/dp/1845425871
• Ruben van Wendel de Joode, e.g. his PhD thesis "Understanding Open Source Communities - An organizational perspective", http://www.tbm.tudelft.nl/live/pagina.jsp?id=5862b06f-1525-45ee-b464-5795f7b08e3d&lang=en&binary==/doc/proefschrift%20Van%20Wendel%20de%20Joode.pdf
• Gabriella 'Biella' Coleman, http://gabriellacoleman.org/blog/?page_id=531 in particular her PhD thesis "The Social Construction of Freedom in Free and Open Source Software: Hackers, Ethics, and the Liberal Tradition"

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