State of the Source 2020: Analyzing Tens of Terabytes of Public Trace Data & Open Source Sustainabil
Channel: Open Source Initiative
Date: 18/09/2020

What can analyzing tens of terabytes of public trace data tell us about open source sustainability?
Bogdan Vasilescu and Christian Kaestner

Open-source communities face significant sustainability challenges, from attracting and retaining a diverse set of contributors, to fundraising. Through interviews, surveys, and analysis of billions of commits and other public traces, we studied the organization, functioning, and overall health of open-source communities. Among others, we found that donations are not promising for the vast majority of maintainers and that team demographic diversity correlates with higher productivity.

Session Slides: https://cmustrudel.github.io//slides/state-of-the-source.pdf

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