@inproceedings{b93299c863b641008cc5b07e2115f8ec,
title = "A theory of the engagement in open source projects via summer of code programs",
abstract = "Summer of code programs connect students to open source software (OSS) projects, typically during the summer break from school. Analyzing consolidated summer of code programs can reveal how college students, who these programs usually target, can be motivated to participate in OSS, and what onboarding strategies OSS communities adopt to receive these students. In this paper, we study the well-established Google Summer of Code (GSoC) and devise an integrated engagement theory grounded in multiple data sources to explain motivation and onboarding in this context. Our analysis shows that OSS communities employ several strategies for planning and executing student participation, socially integrating the students, and rewarding student's contributions and achievements. Students are motivated by a blend of rewards, which are moderated by external factors. We presented these rewards and the motivation theory to students who had never participated in a summer of code program and collected their shift in motivation after learning about the theory. New students can benefit from the former students' experiences detailed in our results, and OSS stakeholders can leverage both the insight into students' motivations for joining such programs as well as the onboarding strategies we identify to devise actions to attract and retain newcomers.",
keywords = "Engagement, Mentoring, Motivation, OSS, Onboarding, Process Theory, Summer of Code",
author = "Jefferson Silva and Igor Wiese and German, {Daniel M.} and Christoph Treude and Gerosa, {Marco Aur{\'e}lio} and Igor Steinmacher",
note = "Funding Information: We thank all the participants of this study who volunteered to support our research. This work was partially supported by the CNPq (430642/2016-4), FAPESP (2015/24527-3), and the National Science Foundation (grants 1815503 and 1900903). This work was conducted as part of a Ph.D. dissertation in the Computer Science Department at the University of S{\~a}o Paulo (USP). Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2020 ACM.; 28th ACM Joint Meeting European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering, ESEC/FSE 2020 ; Conference date: 08-11-2020 Through 13-11-2020",
year = "2020",
month = nov,
day = "8",
doi = "10.1145/3368089.3409724",
language = "English (US)",
series = "ESEC/FSE 2020 - Proceedings of the 28th ACM Joint Meeting European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering",
publisher = "Association for Computing Machinery, Inc",
pages = "421--431",
editor = "Prem Devanbu and Myra Cohen and Thomas Zimmermann",
booktitle = "ESEC/FSE 2020 - Proceedings of the 28th ACM Joint Meeting European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering",
}