%0 Journal Article %J Technology Innovation Management Review %D 2013 %T Sustainability and Governance in Developing Open Source Projects as Processes of In-Becoming %A Daniel Curto-Millet %K becoming %K emergence %K governance %K open source %K Ostrom %K processes %K requirements %K sustainability %X Sustainability is often thought of as a binary state: an open source project is either sustainable or not. In reality, sustainability is much more complex. What makes this project more sustainable than that one? Why should it be assumed in the first place that sustainability is a prolonged state of an ingraced project? The threads are pulled from their yarns in many directions. This article attempts to reconceptualize some assumed notions of the processes involved in developing open source software. It takes the stance in favour of studying the fluctuant nature of open source and the associated artefacts, not as well-defined objects, but as commons that are continually built upon, evolved, and modified; sometimes in unexpected ways. Further, the governance of these commons is an ongoing process, tightly linked with the way in which these commons are allowed to further develop. This perspective of "in-becoming" is useful in understanding the efforts and processes that need to be provided to sustainably govern the development of open source projects and the advantages for managing requirements derived therein. %B Technology Innovation Management Review %I Talent First Network %C Ottawa %V 3 %P 40-45 %8 01/2013 %G eng %U http://timreview.ca/article/649 %N 1 %1 London School of Economics and Political Science Daniel Curto-Millet is a PhD student at the London School of Economics and Political Science. His research focuses on studying requirements engineering and innovation in open source contexts from new perspectives. He has presented his work at a number of international conferences including the Academy of Management conference and the European Conference of Information Systems Doctoral Consortium. He has a background in Software Engineering from University College London and has worked for the DG DIGIT of the European Commission. %R http://doi.org/10.22215/timreview/649