Identification of Key Persons in Open Source Communities
Shino Iwami · 2023
After society encountered the concept of open source, something open has increased, and a lot of open source software (OSS) has been created. Nowadays, it is said that OSS is the best success of open innovation. Many enterprises incorporate OSS into their products and services, and OSS based on new ideas makes technological trends. In order to catch up with the latest trends of OSS via key persons, centralities of networks are available. This research investigates the appropriate ranges of parameters in order to get persuasive results. Consequently, a data set with accounts having 1–9 “following” in repositories created in the last two years is enough to identify the key persons. It is confirmed that key persons are tackling popular OSS and the observations on the accounts of key persons revealed their responsible OSS and new ways of life.