@article {Crowston:2007,
	title = {The role of face-to-face meetings in technology-supported self-organizing distributed teams},
	journal = {IEEE Transactions on Professional Communications},
	volume = {50},
	number = {3},
	year = {2007},
	pages = {185{\textendash}203},
	abstract = {We examine the role of face-to-face meetings in the context of technology-supported self-organizing distributed or virtual teams, specifically Free/Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) development teams. Based on a qualitative inductive analysis of data from interviews and observations at FLOSS conferences, we identify a variety of settings in which developers meet face-to-face, activities performed in these settings and benefits obtained. Contrary to the conventional wisdom, FLOSS developers generally do not meet face-to-face until the project is well under way. An additional benefit of face-to-face meetings is time away from a regular job and speed of interaction for certain kinds of tasks.},
	keywords = {FLOSS},
	doi = {10.1109/TPC.2007.902654},
	attachments = {https://crowston.syr.edu./sites/crowston.syr.edu/files/070122.pdf},
	author = {Kevin Crowston and James Howison and Masango, Chengetai and Eseryel, U. Yeliz}
}
