This document is a presentation about analyzing social interaction and coding patterns in large-scale distributed software projects, using the Linux Kernel project as a case study. The project aims to identify potential problems or inefficiencies in collaboration processes. Specifically, it will look at interaction data from the Linux Kernel project due to its size and activity level, with the goal of understanding collaboration better and helping open source projects work more efficiently.
Social interaction patterns in large scale open source projects
1. “ODCSSS 2008: The Global Family;
The Global Workplace”
“Social Interaction in Large Scale Distributed
Software Projects”
Maciek Baranski
M.Baranski@sms.ed.ac.uk
Supervisors and Mentors:
Dr. Alexander Ufimtsev
Dr. Joseph Kiniry
2. Project Motivation
● Analyze interaction/coding
patterns in an open source
project to identify possible
problems or inefficiencies in
the process
● Open source projects rarely
bother with such analysis
(coders want to code!)
● Focus on Linux Kernel
