The Meso-level Structure of F/OSS Collaboration Network:Local Communities and Their Innovativeness

Key Points

• Innovativeness in local communities significantly enhances the collaboration network structure.
• Key evidence shows that innovative practices lead to increased community engagement in open source projects.
• Observational analysis of collaboration networks in open source software reveals unique structures of local communities.
• These findings suggest that fostering local innovativeness could strengthen overall collaboration frameworks.