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20142025
most citedHow to organize an in-person, online or hybrid hackathon -- A revised planning kit

15 citations · 29 across the 7 of their papers we have counts for

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8 papers

cs.HC2025

In-person, Online and Back Again -- A Tale of Three Hybrid Hackathons

Abasi-amefon Obot Affia-Jomants, Alexander Serebrenik, James D. Herbsleb +1

Hybrid hackathons, which combine in-person and online participation, present unique challenges for organizers and participants. Although such events are increasingly conducted, res…

cs.SE2022

One-off Events? An Empirical Study of Hackathon Code Creation and Reuse

Ahmed Samir Imam Mahmoud, Tapajit Dey, Alexander Nolte +2

Background: Hackathons have become popular events for teams to collaborate on projects and develop software prototypes. Most existing research focuses on activities during an event…

cs.SE2021★ 5 cited

Global Software Engineering in the Age of GitHub and Zoom

James Herbsleb

Much has changed since the inaugural ICGSE conference in 2006. Tools have improved, awareness of cultural differences is widespread, and developments such as the foregrounding of o…

cs.SE2021★ 1 cited

The Secret Life of Hackathon Code

Ahmed Imam, Tapajit Dey, Alexander Nolte +2

Background: Hackathons have become popular events for teams to collaborate on projects and develop software prototypes. Most existing research focuses on activities during an event…

cs.SE2020

Guiding Development Work Across a Software Ecosystem by Visualizing Usage Data

Christopher Bogart, James Howison, James Herbsleb

Software is increasingly produced in the form of ecosystems, collections of interdependent components maintained by a distributed community. These ecosystems act as network organiz…

cs.CY2020★ 15 cited

How to organize an in-person, online or hybrid hackathon -- A revised planning kit

Abasi-amefon Obot Affia-Jomants, Kiev Gama, James D. Herbsleb +1

Hackathons and similar time-bounded events are a global phenomenon. Their proliferation in various domains and their usefulness for a variety of goals has led to the emergence of d…

cs.CY2019★ 1 cited

A Preliminary Theory for Open Source Ecosystem Micro-economics

Nicolas Jullien, Klaas-Jan Stol, James Herbsleb

While there has been substantial empirical work identifying factors that influence the contribution to, and use of open source software, we have as yet little theory that identifie…

cs.HC2014★ 7 cited

Transparency and Coordination in Peer Production

Laura Dabbish, Colleen Stuart, Jason Tsay +1

This paper examines coordination in transparent work environments - environments where the content of work artifacts, and the actions taken on these artifacts, are fully visible to…