<div dir="ltr"><div>Possibly useful:</div><div><br></div>Trainer, E. H., Chaihirunkarn, C., Kalyanasundaram, A., & Herbsleb, J. D. (2015). From Personal Tool to Community Resource: What’s the Extra Work and Who Will Do It? Proceedings of the 18th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work &#38; Social Computing, 417–430. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1145/2675133.2675172">https://doi.org/10.1145/2675133.2675172</a><div><br></div><div>Although you are specifically asking about continuation motivations, rather than initial. I don't know of specific work on that, but I think it's a particularly interesting question, would love to know if anyone has a study that breaks out continuation (I guess a comparison between contributions in years 1-3 and beyond?). I think it would be crucial to break out motivations for those using the software themselves (esp. enabling revenue) vs those maintaining software they don't use anymore.</div><div><br></div><div>There is a somewhat dated (but possibly still useful) summary of motivation research (together with a discussion of the importance of weighting stated motivations by actual time contributed, rather than laundry lists) in</div><div><br></div><div>Crowston, K., Wei, K., Howison, J., & Wiggins, A. (2012). Free (Libre) Open Source Software Development: What We Know and What We Do Not Know. <i>ACM Computing Surveys</i>, <i>44</i>(2), Article 7. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1145/2089125.2089127">https://doi.org/10.1145/2089125.2089127</a></div><div><div class="gmail-csl-bib-body" style="line-height:2;margin-left:2em">
<span class="gmail-Z3988" title="url_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fzotero.org%3A2&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.1145%2F2089125.2089127&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.atitle=Free%20(Libre)%20Open%20Source%20Software%20Development%3A%20What%20We%20Know%20and%20What%20We%20Do%20Not%20Know&rft.jtitle=ACM%20Computing%20Surveys&rft.volume=44&rft.issue=2&rft.aufirst=Kevin&rft.aulast=Crowston&rft.au=Kevin%20Crowston&rft.au=Kangning%20Wei&rft.au=James%20Howison&rft.au=Andrea%20Wiggins&rft.date=2012&rft.pages=Article%207"></span></div></div><div><br><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">James Howison<div><br><div>Associate Professor</div><div>School of Information</div><div>University of Texas at Austin</div><div><a href="http://james.howison.name" target="_blank">http://james.howison.name</a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Aug 24, 2020 at 2:09 AM Bastien <<a href="mailto:bzg@bzg.fr">bzg@bzg.fr</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">jan <<a href="mailto:dittrich.c.jan@gmail.com" target="_blank">dittrich.c.jan@gmail.com</a>> writes:<br>
<br>
> I thus wonder how and why they continue to maintain in the face that<br>
> a lot of the openly celebrated activities are somewhere else.<br>
<br>
In my case (being a FLOSS maintainer for ~10 years), my motivation<br>
evolved from<br>
<br>
(1) a moral sense of giving back to other FLOSS maintainers<br>
(2) the mere fun of being a maintainer (and decide things)<br>
(3) a certain sense of pride<br>
<br>
to <br>
<br>
(1) the moral sense of giving back (still important)<br>
(2) the moral sense of social commitment to the community<br>
<br>
-- <br>
Bastien<br>
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