BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:researchseminars.org CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-WR-CALNAME:researchseminars.org BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Mahasweta Chakraborti DTSTART:20240410T160000Z DTEND:20240410T170000Z DTSTAMP:20260417T111354Z UID:Metagov/197 DESCRIPTION:Title: Do We Run How We Say We Run? Formalisation and Practice of Governance in OSS Communities.\nby Mahasweta Chakraborti as part of Metagovernance Seminar\n\n\nAbstract\nOpen Source Software (OSS) communities often resist regulation typical of traditional organizations. Yet formal governance sy stems are being increasingly adopted among communities\, particularly thro ugh non-profit mentor foundations. Our study looks at the Apache Software Foundation Incubator program and 208 projects it supports. We assemble a s calable\, semantic pipeline to discover and analyze the governance behavio r of projects from their mailing lists. We then investigate the reception of formal policies among communities\, through their own governance priori ties and internalization of the policies. Our findings indicate that while communities observe formal requirements and policies as extensively as th ey are defined\, their day-to-day governance focus does not dwell on topic s that see most formal policy-making. Moreover formalization\, be it dedic ating governance focus or adopting policy\, has limited association with p roject sustenance.\n\nRef:\nChakraborti\, M.\, Atkisson\, C.\, Stanciulesc u\, S.\, Filkov\, V.\, and Frey\, S. (in press). Do We Run How We Say We R un? Formalisation and Practice of Governance in OSS Communities. Proceedin gs of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction. \n\nhttps://doi.org/10.48550/ arXiv.2309.14245\n LOCATION:https://researchseminars.org/talk/Metagov/197/ END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR