Dear colleagues, does anyone know of a journal article which assesses the intensity of communication of open-source projects, compared to physical organisations? I postulate that it's a lot higher due to mailing lists and chat channels, and since it's going on around the clock, but I could not find any paper on the topic on jstor, ebsco, google scholar, elsevier, or plain google. i'd prefer not to have to write that paper first. :) I am trying to match an older claim to Debian. The claim says that ideas spread faster in networks with high values of geographic proximity. It seems perfectly sensible that with IRC and mailing lists, Debian is actually quite tightly knit, despite the large geographic span. Or does anyone disagree with that? Cheers, -- Martin F. Krafft <mailto:martin.krafft@ul.ie> Ph.D. student http://phd.martin-krafft.net I study the diffusion of development tools in large open-source projects, specifically the factors which lead to the adoption of new methods by developers of the Debian project. Debian is one of the largest open-source projects, with several thousand volunteer contributors. I am one of the developers, and interested in improving the efficiency of our workflows. Lero - the Irish Software Engineering Research Centre University of Limerick, Ireland
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