Trends in Free, Libre, Open Source Software Communities: From Volunteers to Companies / Aktuelle Trends in Free-, Libre-, und Open-Source-Software-Gemeinschaften: Von Freiwilligen zu Unternehmen

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Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona
Dr. Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona teaches and researches at Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, and collaborates with Bitergia, a software development analytics company. He is interested in understanding free/open source software development, in finding ways to improve its efficiency, and in sharing this knowledge.
Address: Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain, e-mail: jgb@gsyc.urjc.es
and Gregorio Robles
Dr. Gregorio Robles is associate professor at the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos. His research interests involve software engineering in free/libre open source software, mining software repositories and technology enhanced learning. Address: Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain, e-mail: grex@gsyc.urjc.es

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ACM CSS; Software and its engineering; Software creation and management; Collaboration in software development; Open source mode; volunteer open source; commercial open source; open source community; open source history