{"id":698926,"date":"2020-10-17T10:57:10","date_gmt":"2020-10-17T17:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/?post_type=msr-project&#038;p=698926"},"modified":"2022-10-24T22:00:43","modified_gmt":"2022-10-25T05:00:43","slug":"oss-for-social-good","status":"publish","type":"msr-project","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/project\/oss-for-social-good\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Source Software for Social Good"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this project, we explore OSS for Social Good (OSS4SG) from the perspective of the builders. We investigate how the scale of project impact can influence how the projects contributors select what to work on, their contribution patterns, and how they contribute to general OSS projects overall.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a quick 10 minute video explaining what we found:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Developer Tech Minutes: Open Source Software for Social Good\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/Je0KKTG518Q?feature=oembed&rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>The hallmark paper can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/leaving-my-fingerprints-motivations-and-challenges-of-contributing-to-oss-for-social-good\/\">here<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>:<\/h3>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/project\/oss-for-social-good\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-739672\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/uploads\/prod\/2020\/10\/OSS4SG-ICSE-2021-papersnapshot-300x165.png\" alt=\"OSS4SG screenshot of paper title, authors, and snippet of abstract\" width=\"442\" height=\"243\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/uploads\/prod\/2020\/10\/OSS4SG-ICSE-2021-papersnapshot-300x165.png 300w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/uploads\/prod\/2020\/10\/OSS4SG-ICSE-2021-papersnapshot-1024x564.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/uploads\/prod\/2020\/10\/OSS4SG-ICSE-2021-papersnapshot-768x423.png 768w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/uploads\/prod\/2020\/10\/OSS4SG-ICSE-2021-papersnapshot-16x9.png 16w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/uploads\/prod\/2020\/10\/OSS4SG-ICSE-2021-papersnapshot.png 1275w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 442px) 100vw, 442px\" \/><span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h6><\/h6>\n<h6><\/h6>\n<h6>Related Resources:<\/h6>\n<ul>\n<li><a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/socialimpact.github.com\/\">GitHub Social Impact Website<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>\n<ul>\n<li><a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/socialimpact.github.com\/assets\/img\/research\/GitHub_tCF_OSSInSocialSector_FINAL_updated.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">GitHub Social Impact Report <span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/octoverse.github.com\/static\/github-octoverse-2020-community-report.pdf#page=23\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">GitHub State of the Octoverse Report &#8211; Empowering Healthy Communities feature<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Supplemental Materials for this project can be found\u00a0 at <a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.5281\/zenodo.4536791\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/zenodo.org\/badge\/DOI\/10.5281\/zenodo.4536791.svg\" alt=\"DOI\" \/><span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this project, we explore Open Source Software for Social Good (OSS4SG) from the perspective of the builders.\u00a0We investigate how the scale of project impact can influence the projects contributors select, their contribution patterns, and how they contribute to OSS projects overall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"msr-url-field":"","msr-podcast-episode":"","msrModifiedDate":"","msrModifiedDateEnabled":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"research-area":[13554,13560],"msr-locale":[268875],"msr-impact-theme":[],"msr-pillar":[],"class_list":["post-698926","msr-project","type-msr-project","status-publish","hentry","msr-research-area-human-computer-interaction","msr-research-area-programming-languages-software-engineering","msr-locale-en_us","msr-archive-status-active"],"msr_project_start":"2020-05-01","related-publications":[719575,838627,842032,868863,892575],"related-downloads":[],"related-videos":[],"related-groups":[],"related-events":[],"related-opportunities":[],"related-posts":[],"related-articles":[],"tab-content":[{"id":0,"name":"","content":""}],"slides":[],"related-researchers":[{"type":"user_nicename","display_name":"Denae Ford Robinson","user_id":38637,"people_section":"Researchers","alias":"denae"},{"type":"user_nicename","display_name":"Tom Zimmermann","user_id":34453,"people_section":"Researchers","alias":"tzimmer"},{"type":"guest","display_name":"Nischal Shrestha","user_id":764998,"people_section":"Alumni","alias":""},{"type":"guest","display_name":"Mariam Guizani","user_id":765013,"people_section":"Alumni","alias":""},{"type":"guest","display_name":"Jenny Liang","user_id":765010,"people_section":"Alumni","alias":""},{"type":"guest","display_name":"Yu Huang","user_id":698941,"people_section":"Alumni","alias":""}],"msr_research_lab":[199565],"msr_impact_theme":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-project\/698926"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-project"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/msr-project"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-project\/698926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":828367,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-project\/698926\/revisions\/828367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=698926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"msr-research-area","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/research-area?post=698926"},{"taxonomy":"msr-locale","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-locale?post=698926"},{"taxonomy":"msr-impact-theme","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-impact-theme?post=698926"},{"taxonomy":"msr-pillar","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-pillar?post=698926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}