History and scholarship
Raymond (1999) described open collaboration; Lerner and Tirole (2002) proposed career-signalling motives; von Hippel and von Krogh (2003) the private-collective model. Dabbish et al. (2012) studied social coding, Marlow et al. (2013) impression formation from activity traces, and Kalliamvakou et al. (2014) the perils of mining GitHub.
Key points
Pin a few repos; READMEs cover purpose, stack, setup, features and troubleshooting. Laws, programmes, visa rules and hiring practice change; check official notices, current law and actual postings.
In practice
Quality over contribution-graph volume; never commit secrets.
FAQ
- Empty contribution graph?
- Varies by employer.
- Include forks?
- Only with clear contributions.
Sources reviewed: 2026-10-26
References
- Raymond, E. S. (1999). The Cathedral and the Bazaar. O'Reilly.
- Lerner, J., & Tirole, J. (2002). Some simple economics of open source. Journal of Industrial Economics, 50(2), 197–234.
- von Hippel, E., & von Krogh, G. (2003). Open source software and the "private-collective" innovation model. Organization Science, 14(2), 209–223.
- Dabbish, L., Stuart, C., Tsay, J., & Herbsleb, J. (2012). Social coding in GitHub: Transparency and collaboration in an open software repository. Proceedings of CSCW 2012, 1277–1286.
- Marlow, J., Dabbish, L., & Herbsleb, J. (2013). Impression formation in online peer production: Activity traces and personal profiles in GitHub. Proceedings of CSCW 2013, 117–128.
- Kalliamvakou, E., Gousios, G., Blincoe, K., Singer, L., German, D. M., & Damian, D. (2014). The promises and perils of mining GitHub. Proceedings of MSR 2014, 92–101.
- 고용24(고용노동부). https://www.work24.go.kr
- 국가법령정보센터. https://www.law.go.kr