{"id":2304,"date":"2022-09-23T17:57:30","date_gmt":"2022-09-23T17:57:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/pit\/?p=2304"},"modified":"2022-09-23T18:00:57","modified_gmt":"2022-09-23T18:00:57","slug":"public-interest-technology-spotlight-umass-faculty-receive-nsf-funding-to-continue-the-study-of-successful-and-sustainable-open-source-software-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/pit\/2022\/09\/23\/public-interest-technology-spotlight-umass-faculty-receive-nsf-funding-to-continue-the-study-of-successful-and-sustainable-open-source-software-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"UMass Faculty Receive NSF Funding to Continue the Study of Successful and Sustainable Open-Source Software Projects"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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\"NSFCongratulations to UMass faculty Charlie Schweik and Brenda Bushouse and UMass Postdoc Curtis Atkisson on being awarded a roughly $2M grant renewal from the National Science <\/span>Foundation\u2019s (NSF) Growing Convergence Research program for their project, \u201cJumpstarting Successful Open-Source Software Projects with Evidence-based Rules and Structures.\u201d The Growing Convergence Research program Is one of NSF\u2019s <\/span>10 Big Ideas, <\/span><\/a>recognizing the grand challenges found in today\u2019s world will not be solved by single disciplines and requires \u201cthe merging of ideas, approaches and technologies from widely diverse fields of knowledge to stimulate innovation and discovery.\u201d<\/span><\/p>

This merging of disciplines is evident with the team structure of this project, which combines individuals from both UMass and the University of California (UC) Davis. Schweik is the Associate Director of PIT@UMass and Professor of Environmental Conservation and Public Policy, and a social scientist who studies collective action in \u201ccommons\u201d settings.\u00a0 Bushouse is the Associate Professor of Public Policy in the UMass School of Public Policy and a social scientist with expertise in nonprofit organizations. Atkisson is an Anthropologist and Computational Social Scientist at UMass.\u00a0 The UC Davis team is led by\u00a0 <\/span>Vladimir Filkov<\/a>, a distinguished computer and data scientist, and <\/span>Seth Frey<\/a>, a cognitive and computational social scientist faculty member in UC Davis\u2019 Department of Communications.\u00a0 Numerous doctoral and undergraduate students from a variety of departments in both universities also support their work. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>

This project impacts the public interest by discerning the socio-technical structural and governance conditions under which internet-based open-source software (OSS) projects are most\u2014and least\u2014likely to be successfully developed and maintained sustainably.\u00a0 The project\u00a0 provides actionable knowledge to OSS developers and to the nonprofit organizations that facilitate OSS development through incubator programs.<\/span><\/p>

According to Schweik, \u201cOpen-source software is a multi-billion-dollar industry.\u00a0 Over 80% of businesses, including all major tech companies, rely on OSS, and most people use it in their day-to-day digital lives\u2014browsing the web, editing documents, banking, hosting websites\u2014often without realizing it.\u00a0 On campus we rely on Moodle, an OSS system, for our course management system. Our world relies on software to operate and, if you open the hood, you will find OSS infrastructure.\u201d<\/span><\/p>

\u201cWhile this popularity attracts many programmers to create open-source projects, more than 90% of OSS projects are eventually abandoned, especially smaller and start-up phase projects,\u201d he continued. The central research question we are working to answer is what leads some OSS projects toward ongoing sustainability while many others become abandoned.\u00a0 We are particularly interested in understanding the role nonprofit organizations like the <\/span>Apache Software Foundation<\/span><\/a> and others like it, play in incubating and mentoring OSS projects toward longer-term collaborative success.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>



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Congratulations to UMass faculty Charlie Schweik and Brenda Bushouse and UMass Postdoc Curtis Atkisson on being awarded a roughly $2M grant renewal from the National Science Foundation\u2019s (NSF) Growing Convergence Research program for their project, \u201cJumpstarting Successful Open-Source Software Projects with Evidence-based Rules and Structures.\u201d The Growing Convergence Research program Is one of NSF\u2019s 10 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