2 papers
cs.CY2026
Patterns in the Transition From Founder-Leadership to Community Governance of Open Source
Mobina Noori, Mahasweta Chakraborti, Amy X Zhang +1
Open digital public infrastructure needs community management to ensure accountability, sustainability, and robustness. Yet open-source projects often rely on centralized decision-…
cs.CL2025
A Human Behavioral Baseline for Collective Governance in Software Projects
Mobina Noori, Mahasweta Chakraborti, Amy X Zhang +1
We study how open source communities describe participation and control through version controlled governance documents. Using a corpus of 710 projects with paired snapshots, we pa…