Improving the Docs Project workflow - Appendix B: Types of Knowledge Contributions to a FOSS Project

Appendix B: Types of Knowledge Contributions to a FOSS Project
This table is an excellent overview of how the FOSS community really works. It serves as a great introduction to the "big picture". The author, Daniel German, is an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Victoria. He is a core contributor to Panotools, a FOSS project hosted on Source Forge.

Source: "The Flow of Knowledge in Free and Open Source Communities", Daniel German, presented at 2nd International Workshop on Supporting Knowledge Collaboration in Software Development (KCSD2006) in Tokyo, Japan on September 19, 2006.

http://l3d.cs.colorado.edu/kcsd2006/papers/German.pdf
 * "The Flow of Knowledge in Free and Open Source Communities" (PDF document), by Daniel M. German: