Incentive Structure on Open Source Software Community: Case Study of GitHub
Ryō Suzuki · 2014
This paper provides a simple model that shows how open source software development will change if the developers can reveal their software development skills through open source project. We present the quality of the software and the number of the developers who join the open source community will increase if their abilities can be observed in the labor market. This implies that the existence of the place that evaluate programmers’ skills with open source projects provides better result not only to each programmer but also to the community and the society itself. Finally, we discuss the limitation of our model and suggest the possible future works.