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Y Huang, D Ford, T Zimmermann - 2021 IEEE/ACM 43rd …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org

Leaving my fingerprints: Motivations and challenges of contributing to oss for social good.

Broadening Participation in Computing AND Program Evaluation

Ford, Huang, Zimmermann

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When inspiring software developers to contribute to open source software, the act is often referenced as an opportunity to build tools to support the developer community. However, that is not the only charge that propels contributions-growing interest in open source has also been attributed to software developers deciding to use their technical skills to benefit a common societal good. To understand how developers identify these projects, their motivations for contributing, and challenges they face, we conducted 21 semi-structured …

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