Authors:
Luã Marcelo Muriana
1
;
Cristiano Maciel
2
and
Ana Cristina Bicharra Garcia
1
Affiliations:
1
Federal Fluminense University UFF, Brazil
;
2
Federal University of Mato Grosso – UFMT, Brazil
Keyword(s):
Collective Intelligence, Open Source, Knowledge Management, Quality Assurance, Software Engineering, Community.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Biomedical Engineering
;
Collaborative Computing
;
Data Engineering
;
Enterprise Information Systems
;
Health Information Systems
;
Information Systems Analysis and Specification
;
Knowledge Management
;
Ontologies and the Semantic Web
;
Society, e-Business and e-Government
;
Software Agents and Internet Computing
;
Software Engineering
;
Tools, Techniques and Methodologies for System Development
;
Web 2.0 and Social Networking Controls
;
Web Information Systems and Technologies
Abstract:
Open Source Software (OSS) is software that users have freedom to modify and share it with no cost whatever their intentions. A major feature of this kind of software is its development in public, where the collective intelligence (CI) is applied and the knowledge is shared. The communication is a fundamental activity to these settings of development. To support the communication process, knowledge management (KM) stimulates the communication and the information sharing among people. This way, a good communication among users that are stimulated and coordinated addresses the final quality of the open source project. This work surveys how KM stimulates quality assurance in developing open source settings. It focuses on users, on the communication among them, and on the documentation they can help to write.