[kde-community] Studies on FLOSS contributor/user personalities?

[Michael Bohlender]

Hi Celeste,

I remeber a  talk by Thomas Thym for Akademy 2010.
He also wrote a little paper for it. There is one small paragraph about the
"character" of FLOSS contributors.
It cites the work of Krogh, Spaeth and Lakhani. Hope that helps as a
starting point.

Regards

M.




On Sat, May 24, 2014 at 2:57 AM, Celeste Lyn Paul <celeste at kde.org> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> Has anyone heard of or seen research studies that have looked at
> personality types of FLOSS contributors and users? I'm working on a small
> research project and personality style of FLOSS contributors has come up.
>
> Intuitively, I could say a lot about us/them. Tendencies towards
> introversion, opinionated, need for control, judging vs. perceiving,
> analytical, etc. But for my project, I'd like empirical evidence rather
> than my own experience ;)
>
> Cheers,
>
> ~ Celeste
>
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