Özel, B.2024-07-182024-07-182005https://hdl.handle.net/11411/68381st International Conference on Open Source Systems, OSS 2005 -- 11 July 2005 through 15 July 2005 -- Genova -- 95115This study, first, points the rhizomatic nature of open source software (OSS) communities. Then, it proposes an hypergraph based research methodology both to capture and to analyze dynamics of OSS communities. An exemplary hypergraph theoretical analysis of power antecedence within rhizomatic network of an OSS community is illustrated.eninfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccessCommunity IsHypergraphOpen Source SoftwareOpen Source Software CommunityPower RelationsResearch MethodologiesComputer SoftwareOpen SystemsConference Object2-s2.0-84872918444N/A272