Abstract
It can be argued that participating in free/libre open source software (FLOSS) projects can have a positive effect in the contributor’s learning process. The need to interact with other contributors, to read other people’s code, write documentation, or use different tools, can motivate and implicitly foster learning. In order to validate this statement we design an appropriate questionnaire asking FLOSS contributors about their experience in FLOSS projects. In this paper, we illustrate how this questionnaire was designed and what we expect to learn from the answers. We conclude the paper with a preview of the results from three cases studies.
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This work has been supported by Macao Science and Technology Development Fund, File No. 019/2011/A1, in the context of the PPAeL project, as well as by ERDF - European Regional Development Fund through the COMPETE Programme (operational programme for competitiveness) and by Portuguese National Funds through the FCT (Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology) within project FCOMP-01-0124-FEDER-007254.
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Fernandes, S., Cerone, A., Barbosa, L.S. (2014). A Preliminary Analysis of Learning Awareness in FLOSS Projects. In: Cerone, A., et al. Information Technology and Open Source: Applications for Education, Innovation, and Sustainability. SEFM 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 7991. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-54338-8_10
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