Os Programas de Engajamento em Software Livre Atraem Estudantes à Colaboração Voluntária? Um Estudo Empírico do Google Summer of Code
Resumo
Os programas Summer of Code, programas intensivos de desenvolvimento de software de curta duração, podem não apenas promover o desenvolvimento, mas também inspirar o engajamento de estudantes em projetos de software livre. Neste artigo, realizamos um survey com estudantes e mentores do Google Summer of Code (GSoC) para descobrir se os estudantes continuam a colaborar após o término do programa, bem como entender o que os atrai a participarem do GSoC. Escolhemos o GSoC porque ele provê a seus estudantes uma rara combinação de recompensas de participação incluindo desenvolvimento de habilidades técnicas, alavancagem da carreira, reconhecimento pelos pares e pagamento. Usamos estatística descritiva para analisar as respostas de estudantes e mentores. Nossos resultados sugerem que a principal motivação dos estudantes participarem do GSoC tem relação com alavancagem da carreira, utilizando as habilidades técnicas adquiridas para sinalizar seus talentos a empregadores. Entretanto, também constatamos que a intenção dos estudantes de continuar colaborando com projetos de software livre é forte.
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Trainer, E. H., Chaihirunkarn, C. and Herbsleb, J. D. (2014). The Big Effects of Shortterm Efforts : Mentorship and Code Integration in Open Source Scientific Software. v. 2, n. 1, p. 1–5.
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Trainer, E. H., Kalyanasundaram, A., Chaihirunkarn, C. and Herbsleb, J. D. (2016). How to Hackathon : Socio-technical Tradeoffs in Brief , Intensive Collocation.
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Publicado
04/07/2016
Como Citar
SILVA, Jefferson O.; STEINMACHER, Igor; GEROSA, Marco A..
Os Programas de Engajamento em Software Livre Atraem Estudantes à Colaboração Voluntária? Um Estudo Empírico do Google Summer of Code. In: SIMPÓSIO BRASILEIRO DE SISTEMAS COLABORATIVOS (SBSC), 13. , 2016, Belém.
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Porto Alegre: Sociedade Brasileira de Computação,
2016
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p. 1363-1377.
ISSN 2326-2842.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5753/sbsc.2016.9496.
