TY - JOUR AU - Shen, Cuihua AU - Monge, Peter PY - 2011/06/02 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Who connects with whom? A social network analysis of an online open source software community JF - First Monday JA - FM VL - 16 IS - 6 SE - DO - 10.5210/fm.v16i6.3551 UR - https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/3551 SP - AB - By examining “who connects with whom” in an online community using social network analysis, this study tests the social drivers that shape the collaboration dynamics among a group of participants from SourceForge, the largest open source community on the Web. The formation of the online social network was explored by testing two distinct network attachment logics: strategic selection and homophily. Both logics received some support. Taken together, the results are suggestive of a “performance-based clustering” phenomenon within the OSS online community in which most collaborations involve accomplished developers, and novice developers tend to partner with less accomplished and less experienced peers. ER -