:NewsForge: The Social Structure of Open Source Development
NewsForge: The Social Structure of Open Source Development Feb 2, 2005, 02 :00 UTC (0 Talkback[s]) (7642 reads) (Other stories by Tom Chance)
"NewsForge: How would you describe the KDE development model? Is it typical for open source projects?
"Andreas Brand: KDE is a typical open source project, when you look at the demographics and the motivation structure. It consists of a core surrounded by several peripheral levels which are intermingled. In terms of the volunteers, you have the core developers and the peripheral developers; you also have the developers themselves as core and peripheral technical documentation and translation teams..."
