In Between Users and Developers: Serendipitous Connections and Intermediaries in Volunteer-Driven Open-Source Software Development
L. G. Jahn, Philip Engelbutzeder, Dave Randall, Yannick Bollmann, Vasilis Ntouros, Lea Katharina Michel, Volker Wulf · 2024
Technology plays a pivotal role in driving transformation through grassroots movements, which operate on a local scale while embracing a global perspective on sustainability. Consequently, research emerged within Sustainable HCI, aiming to derive design principles that can empower these movements to scale their impact. However, a notable gap exists in contributions when addressing scalability of large free and open-source software (FOSS) projects.