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Effectively onboarding newcomers is essential for the success of open source projects. These projects often provide onboarding guidelines in their ’CONTRIBUTING’ files (e.g., CONTRIBUTING.md on GitHub). These files explain, for example, how to find open ...

Home health monitoring systems (HHMS) are presented as a cost-effective solution that will assist with collaborative care of older adults. However, instead of care recipients feeling like collaborators, such systems often disempower them. In this paper, ...

Previous work demonstrates that students without prior programming experience are worse off than their programming experienced peers in terms of both Introductory Programming (CS1) grades and dropout rates. Many universities, therefore, offer an ...

To facilitate newcomer onboarding, GitHub recommends the use of "good first issue" (GFI) labels to signal issues suitable for newcomers to resolve. However, previous research shows that manually labeled GFIs are scarce and inappropriate, showing a ...

Attracting and retaining newcomers is vital for the sustainability of an open-source software project. However, it is difficult for newcomers to locate suitable development tasks, while existing "Good First Issues" (GFI) in GitHub are often insufficient ...

Having an efficient onboarding process is a pivotal step to utilize and provision the IoT devices for accessing the network infrastructure. However, the current process to onboard IoT devices is time-consuming and labor-intensive, which makes the process ...

Many monitoring tools that help developers in analyzing the run-time behavior of their applications share a common shortcoming: they require their users to have a fair amount of experience in monitoring applications to understand the used terminology and ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the way that software development teams onboard new hires. Previously, most software developers worked in physical offices and new hires onboarded to their teams in the physical office, following a standard onboarding ...

The number of studies focusing on onboarding in software organizations has increased significantly during the last years. However, current literature overlooks onboarding in Software Product Lines (SPLs). SPLs have been proven effective in managing the ...

Developers frequently move into new teams or environments across software companies. Their onboarding experience is correlated with productivity, job satisfaction, and other short-term and long-term outcomes. The majority of the onboarding process ...

This document describes the minimal framework required for a new device, called a "pledge", to securely join a 6TiSCH (IPv6 over the Time-Slotted Channel Hopping mode of IEEE 802.15.4) network. The framework requires that the pledge and the JRC (Join ...

This document specifies automated bootstrapping of an Autonomic Control Plane. To do this, a Secure Key Infrastructure is bootstrapped. This is done using manufacturer-installed X.509 certificates, in combination with a manufacturer's authorizing ...

This study proposes and tests a new theoretical model explaining whether, and how, supervisors socialize “temporary newcomers,” defined as new organizational members who join an organization on a temporary basis, with a potential, but uncertain, ...

This paper targets the problems newcomers face when onboarding to open source projects and the low retention rate of newcomers. Open source software projects are becoming increasingly more popular. Many major companies have started building open source ...

A large international engineering office in Germany needed to double in size in 12 months. We designed an onboarding programme within 3 months to help it do so efficaciously. We wanted to optimize for: fast iterations in the programme rollout, to keep ...

Software development teams dedicate considerable resources to training newcomers. Newcomers are new developers to a software project. The software onboarding process is more complicated than onboarding into other organizations. It is much more ...

Onboarding users to a complex application or a new functionality can be a serious issue, especially for organizations that need to train their new employees. Using a complex application without proper training or guidance can lead to users' confusion ...

Software development communities of practice must adapt canonical best practices to suit their own situation-specific and evolving contexts. To uncover real strategies for organization and communication, we conducted a eight-month participant ...

Currently, paramedics are provided information from the 911 operator regarding the emergency faced by the patient/victim in a medical distress. While many distress scenarios for a patient/victim exist, the challenges faced by a victim with a medical ...

Mobile application designers use onboarding task flows to help first time users learn and engage with key application functionality. Although some guidelines for designing onboarding flows have been offered by practitioners, a systematic, research-...