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This study is part of an ongoing comparative study of various types of open software communities including both free and open source software projects. This study examines how the organizational cultural beliefs and values of a free software virtual organization influence software development processes. It provides examples that illustrate the

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ance of personal motivation and a sense of working as a team in the perpetuation of a virtual work community. It presents the world of the GNUenterprise.org project as a virtual organizational culture that embodies the beliefs of free software and freedom of choice, and the values of community building and cooperative work. A close study of this project shows how these beliefs and values are manifested in software development methods, artifacts, and tool choice, as well as how dispersed developers cooperate and resolve conflict in a virtual community. Data collection includes the content analysis of Internet Relay Chat archives; kernel cousins archives (summary digests of IRC and mailing list archives); mailing list archives; email interviews; Web site documents and observations; and personal interviews conducted at two open source conferences. Two cases from IRC and mailing list archives of the GNUe virtual community at work are presented for in-depth analyses and comparison. Cultural beliefs and values combined with motivations directly influence the processes of free software development. Results show evidence of consensus-building and consistency across practices and artifacts. In addition, the beliefs and values are consistent with each other – all working in concert to form the ideology that promotes and perpetuates the free software movement and its many communities.

- "Free Software: A Case Study of Software Development in a Virtual Organizational Culture," Margaret S. Elliott http://www.ics.uci.edu/~melliott/ and Walt Scacchi http://www.ics.uci.edu/~wscacchi/, Institute for Software Research http://www.isr.uci.edu/, University of California, Irvine http://www.uci.edu/, April 2003.

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Post Date: March 26, 2005 at 10:10 AM CST; 1600 GMT