On outsourcing and offshoring in community source

Abstract

Community source has emerged as a unique way of developing enterprise applications that combine the resources of multiple user organizations to reduce risk and improve efficiency in application development. The completed software products in a community source will become open source. In this paper, we discuss potential problems found in the development stage in community source via an empirical study in Kuali - a real world community source project. We further examine the possible impacts of applying outsourcing and offshoring to community source. © 2008 IEEE.