Os Programas de Engajamento em Software Livre Atraem Estudantes à Colaboração Voluntária? Um Estudo Empírico do Google Summer of Code
Abstract
Summers of Code, intensive short-term software development programs, may not only foster development but may also inspire its students to engage in OSS. In this study, we conduct a survey with GSoC students’ and mentors’ to find out either if the students keep contributing after the end of the program, as to understand what makes them enter GSoC. We focus on GSoC because it provides their students with a rare mix of participation rewards including skill development, career leverage, peer recognition, and stipends. We use descriptive statistical for analyzing the students’ and mentors’ answers. Our findings suggest that the students’ main motivation to join GSoC is related to career leverage, using the skills developed in the program to signal their potential to employers. However, we also find that the students’ intention to keep contributing to OSS is strong.
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Published
2016-07-04
How to Cite
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: BRAZILIAN SYMPOSIUM ON COLLABORATIVE SYSTEMS (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.
