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Towards Mining OSS Skills from GitHub Activity
Jenny T. Liang, Thomas Zimmermann, Denae Ford
Open source software (OSS) development relies on diverse skill sets. However, to our knowledge, there are no tools which detect OSS-related skills. In this paper, we present a nove…
Attracting and Retaining OSS Contributors with a Maintainer Dashboard
Mariam Guizani, Thomas Zimmermann, Anita Sarma +1
Tools and artifacts produced by open source software (OSS) have been woven into the foundation of the technology industry. To keep this foundation intact, the open source community…
Developers Who Vlog: Dismantling Stereotypes through Community and Identity
Souti Chattopadhyay, Denae Ford, Thomas Zimmermann
Developers are more than "nerds behind computers all day", they lead a normal life, and not all take the traditional path to learn programming. However, the public still sees softw…
Reel Life vs. Real Life: How Software Developers Share Their Daily Life through Vlogs
Souti Chattopadhyay, Thomas Zimmermann, Denae Ford
Software developers are turning to vlogs (video blogs) to share what a day is like to walk in their shoes. Through these vlogs developers share a rich perspective of their technica…
Accessibility in Software Practice: A Practitioner's Perspective
Tingting Bi, Xin Xia, David Lo +3
Being able to access software in daily life is vital for everyone, and thus accessibility is a fundamental challenge for software development. However, given the number of accessib…
"How Was Your Weekend?" Software Development Teams Working From Home During COVID-19
Courtney Miller, Paige Rodeghero, Margaret-Anne Storey +2
The mass shift to working at home during the COVID-19 pandemic radically changed the way many software development teams collaborate and communicate. To investigate how team cultur…