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Epistemic Communities, Situated Learning and Open Source Software Development

Category: Software and Web Development, Desktops, Laptops and OS

Tags: open source software, open source, software development, linux, software

Overview Open source software development is an interesting phenomenon where people contribute to development of computer software and most often receive no economic reward at all. This paper analyses open source software development as an epistemic community where each individual open source software project is perceived as a single epistemic community. Open source software development is a learning process where the involved parties contribute to, and learn from the community. It is discovered that theory of epistemic communities does indeed contribute to the understanding of open source software development. But, the important learning process of open source software development is not readily explained by the epistemic community's theory.

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Publisher: Technical University of Denmark
File Format: PDF
Date Published: Dec 4, 2008
Format: White Papers
Topics: Application Development, Linux - Open Source, Software Engineering

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