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Success-Abandonment-Classification (3)

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Retrieves data from FLOSSmole and from the Notre Dame SourceForge repository to compute project statistics based on releases, downloads and project lifespan. Project statistics are then used to classify projects according to the criteria set up in English & Schweik, but comparison criteria are parameterized so that a different set of criterion thresholds can be used to evaluate the project characteristics.

Created: 2008-02-06 | Last updated: 2008-07-02

Credits: Andrea Wiggins James Howison

FLOSS Communication Centralization Plot, E... (4)

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The analysis in this workflow represents the basis of the analysis in our paper, Social dynamics of FLOSS team communication across channels. This workflow uses WSDL components to select periodized data from the FLOSSmole database and generate sociomatrices. The workflow parses the threaded list structure into a communication network based on reply-to relationships. In the analysis process, an edge weighting is applied so that older messages receive less weight using an exponential decay fun...

Created: 2009-02-07

Credits: Andrea Wiggins Crowston James Howison

Data Set Metadata Generator (1)

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This workflow generates ePrints XML import files with data set metadata for the FLOSSmole project. It reads in an input file generated from a Notre Dame SourceForge dump SQL query and uses regular expressions to parse the filename for the data set's source repository, download URL, and basic description. It also translates the epoch date into a sql format suitable for import, and the file size from bytes into larger units, e.g. GB, MB, etc. These data are inserted into an XML eprint record te...

Created: 2008-08-19 | Last updated: 2008-08-19

Credits: Andrea Wiggins

FLOSS Communication Centralization Plot, U... (2)

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The analysis in this workflow represents the basis of the analysis in our paper, Social dynamics of FLOSS team communication across channels. This workflow uses WSDL components to select periodized data from the FLOSSmole database and generate sociomatrices. The workflow parses the threaded list structure into a communication network based on reply-to relationships. In the analysis process, an unit weighting is applied to the edges. The weighted sociomatrices are then dichotomized according ...

Created: 2009-02-07

Credits: Andrea Wiggins Crowston James Howison

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Output from FLOSS Communication Centralization Workflow

Created: 2008-02-10 01:56:29 | Last updated: 2008-06-09 21:53:03

Credits: Andrea Wiggins Crowston James Howison

Attributions: FLOSS Communication Centralization Plot, Exponentially Weighted

License: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License

File type: PNG image

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FLOSS Research Analyses

Created: 2009-06-05 13:58:56 | Last updated: 2009-06-05 13:59:52

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Rich Get Richer (1)

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This workflow is a replication of the analysis from an OSCon 2004 presentation by Megan Conklin, entitled "Do the Rich Get Richer?" to demonstrate scale-free distribution of FLOSS developers among projects. The workflow retrieves the current number of active developers (for the most recent calculation of said statistic) from the FLOSSmole database. It summarizes and plots the distribution of developers to projects, on both a straight and log-log scale. It also generates a flat list of the de...

Created: 2009-02-05

Credits: Andrea Wiggins

Example for external tools with gzip and g... (1)

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This workflow is self-contained. It has a fixed URL from which a text file is downloaded (output as Original_file). That file is gzipped (output as Compressed_File) and then gunzipped again (output as Decompressed_File). The workflow wraps external tools from taverna.nordugrid.org and needs a beta version of Taverna 2.3 or later.

Created: 2011-05-18 | Last updated: 2011-05-18

Credits: Steffen Möller Alan Williams