Establishing a community for an open-source software startup
Lekanova, Anna (2020)
Lekanova, Anna
2020
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2020060918098
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2020060918098
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For the open-source organisation community is a powerful tool. It helps to reach out to developers and other stakeholders vital for the growth of the project. The community enables public awareness, allows saving human resources and marketing costs along with bringing first adopters.
This study examined the possibilities of building a community for an open-source software project. It aims to find the most efficient form of the community for engaging the stakeholders to drive the daily development and recurrent improvement of an open- source project Fluence network.
The study describes the characteristics of the community for an open-source project. The theoretical framework for this study proposes considering the community in the context of the stakeholder communication concept. The research highlights the possible application of a variety of stakeholder communication models to the community building phenomena.
The data for this thesis was gathered from a set of stakeholder groups: the core teams of open-source projects as well as their environments. The core teams were interviewed through semi-structured focus group interviews, followed by one-on-one video call interviews. The online survey sampled the wider environment. The data collection methods are completed by analyzing the previous researches and observation.
The findings include the plan of the community for an open-source project; practical recommendations for establishing a community along with the detailed proposal of an online community platform, offline events plan followed by applied guidelines for each stage of the community development.
The key finding of the thesis clarified the most engaging efficient model for the community which includes diversifying tool base as follows: online platforms for daily conversations, wiki, code libraries, collaborative work, along with consistent offline meetings.
This study examined the possibilities of building a community for an open-source software project. It aims to find the most efficient form of the community for engaging the stakeholders to drive the daily development and recurrent improvement of an open- source project Fluence network.
The study describes the characteristics of the community for an open-source project. The theoretical framework for this study proposes considering the community in the context of the stakeholder communication concept. The research highlights the possible application of a variety of stakeholder communication models to the community building phenomena.
The data for this thesis was gathered from a set of stakeholder groups: the core teams of open-source projects as well as their environments. The core teams were interviewed through semi-structured focus group interviews, followed by one-on-one video call interviews. The online survey sampled the wider environment. The data collection methods are completed by analyzing the previous researches and observation.
The findings include the plan of the community for an open-source project; practical recommendations for establishing a community along with the detailed proposal of an online community platform, offline events plan followed by applied guidelines for each stage of the community development.
The key finding of the thesis clarified the most engaging efficient model for the community which includes diversifying tool base as follows: online platforms for daily conversations, wiki, code libraries, collaborative work, along with consistent offline meetings.