[Project]: Elephant Factor Umbrella Issue

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Project Name (1 - 3 words)

Elephant Factor Umbrella

Description

Note: This is an umbrella issue used to keep track of the work on several related projects.

Elephant factor refers to too much control by a single company. These negative events in a project’s life that are strongly associated with too much single company control, meaning they are different than what occurs in a project with a diverse community of contributors and maintainers.

Some things to think about: Finding collection of examples with archived repos, license changes, unmerged pull requests - what are the variables that contribute to this? Is membership in companies a proxy for other things you’re worried about. Rather than org membership, it might be better to go straight to the things that you’re worried about happening and measure those instead without getting into privacy issues.

We talked about this in a few meetings, and decided that there were too many things we wanted to understand to fit into a single project, so as of now, we have 3 projects that are related to understanding this larger issue:

• [Project]: Sudden Archival #45
• [Project]: License Changes and Forking #47
• [Project]: Not Accepting Community Input #48

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