Findings of the study about "Fun and Software Development" (FASD)

Dear open source researchers

I thoroughly evaluated the data I gathered in the study about Fun and Software Development (FASD). I've published the key findings of this study in an article for the "Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Open Source Systems". Unfortunately, I can't send this article to the http://opensource.mit.edu/papers/ because the copyright is held by "Agenzia Doppiavu, Italy" :-(. At least, I'm allowed to publish my contribution on my personal web page, so you can download it from https://www.foss.ethz.ch/people/lbenno/BLuthiger_Fun_SoftwareDevel_OSS2005.pdf.

Here's the summary: 
Fun matters: The fun a software developer enjoys accounts for 27% to 33% of his motivation to write open source.
Open source offers better opportunities to enjoy fun while programming: I could verify this hypothesis. Concerning the joy of programming, I found significant differences between programming in an open source context compared to software development under commercial conditions.

Regards,
Benno Luthiger

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Benno Luthiger
WEP J 11
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
CH-8092 Zurich 

Tel: +41 1 632 57 65
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