What Brings You To Open Source: How can projects encourage sustainable open source participation?
Abstract
In 2022, the research team within Google’s Open Source Programs Office launched a study to better understand open source developers, contributors, and maintainers. Since Alphabet is a large consumer of and contributor to open source, our primary goals were to investigate the evolving needs and motivations of open source contributors, and to learn how we can best support the communities we depend on. We also wanted to share our findings with the community in order to further research efforts and our collective understanding of open source work.
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