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    Greg Wilson (gvwilson@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Nov-2024 01:57:55 JSTGreg WilsonGreg Wilson

    Fang et al 2024: "Weak Ties Explain Open Source Innovation" <https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.05646> "…weak ties (reflecting low-intensity, infrequent interactions) act as bridges and connect people to different social circles…do [they] facilitate creativity in software in similar ways?" This paper's answer is "yes", and that "the diversity of projects in which developers engage correlates positively with [future] innovativeness…whereas the volume of interactions exerts minimal influence" #nwit

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      Weak Ties Explain Open Source Innovation
      In a real-world social network, weak ties (reflecting low-intensity, infrequent interactions) act as bridges and connect people to different social circles, giving them access to diverse information and opportunities that are not available within one's immediate, close-knit vicinity. Weak ties can be crucial for creativity and innovation, as it introduces new ideas and approaches that people can then combine in novel ways, leading to innovative solutions and creative breakthroughs. Do weak ties facilitate creativity in software in similar ways? In this paper, we show that the answer is ``yes.'' Concretely, we study the correlation between developers' knowledge acquisition through three distinct interaction networks on GitHub and the innovativeness of the projects they develop, across over 38,000 Python projects hosted on GitHub. Our findings suggest that the diversity of projects in which developers engage correlates positively with the innovativeness of their future project developments, whereas the volume of interactions exerts minimal influence. Notably, acquiring knowledge through weak interactions (e.g., starring) as opposed to strong ones (e.g., committing) emerges as a stronger predictor of future novelty.
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