Data - Internet Success: A Study of Open Source Software Commons

APPENDICES and SUPPLEMENTARY DOCUMENTS

for the book

INTERNET SUCCESS
A STUDY OF OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE COMMONS

By Charles M. Schweik and Robert C. English
(See Amazon.com)

We have made this data available in a spirit of openness, so that others can better understand and possibly reproduce some of our research. Some of these documents were working documents, and in some cases, we may have made minor changes to information contained in them that is not documented.

Please contact bobengl@gmail.com or cschweik@pubpol.umass.edu with questions, comments, or to inquire about data that you do not find posted on this website.

BOOK REFERENCES FOR DATA USED IN PARTS III AND IV OF THE BOOK

III Our Empirical Studies of Open-Source Software Commons - page 101.

Data on our "variables and statistical methodology" can be found in the chapter links and appendices below.

Chapter 7:

Note 3, pages 131, 319 (Appendix 7.1):
Internet search/literature review about the population of OSS projects.

Note 9 pages 141, 319:
Working notes for our 2006 project classification.
Data used for our 2006 project classification-Table 1 (zipped csv).
Data used for our 2006 project classification-Table 2 (zipped csv).

Working notes for our 2009 Notre Dame classification - Initiation Stage.
Data source for our 2009 Notre Dame classification.

Chapter 8:

Note 2 pages 153, 320:
Categorical variable consolidation tables.

Notes 4, 5; pages 163, 166, 320:
Appendix_8.1
Appendix_8.2
Appendix_8.3

Chapter 9:

Note 2 pages 182, 320:
Initiation survey questionnaire.
Growth survey questionnaire.
Survey email invitation.

Note 4 pages 188, 320:
Graphs of our survey responses compared with the SF population.

Note 5 pages 191, 320:
Precise "new variable" definitions - Initiation (R code).
Precise "new variable" definitions - Growth (R code).

Note 6 pages 198, 320:
Text description of "new variable" definitions (Initiation).
Text description of "new variable" definitions (Growth).

Chapter 10:

Note 1 pages 203, 320:
Appendix 10A - Survey contingency tables.

Chapter 11:

Note 1 pages 257, 320:
Variable Construction - Initiation.
Variable Construction - Growth

Note 2 pages 258, 320:
Stepwise regressions for Initiation and Growth stages.

Note 4 pages 265, 320:
See various links above and/or below.

Note 5 pages 267, 320:
Using Cartware in R.
cartware.R (source code).

Chapter 13:

Note 5 pages 313, 321:
Survey response data - Initiation.
Survey response data - Growth.
Chapter 8 Sourceforge data (zipped csv).

Acknowledgment and Disclaimer - This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under grant NSFIIS 0447623. Any opinions, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation (NSF).

We are deeply indebted to Megan Squire and Kevin Crowston (and others) at the FLOSSMole project as well as Greg Madey at the University of Notre Dame for the data they supplied for this book. Greg also helped by connecting us to Ross Turk, who at the time was the director of community with SourceForge.net (SF). Ross helped us conduct our survey of SF developers. We are grateful to all involved at SF for their assistance.