Pith Number

pith:3FS5V5ZI

pith:2026:3FS5V5ZIJHKGBTOTP3EFLKCV37

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What Motivates Whom? A Survey of Newcomers to OSS and Experienced OSS Practitioners

Hourieh Khalajzadeh, Mojtaba Shahin, Shashiwadana Nirmani, Xiao Liu

arxiv:2607.25126 v1 · 2026-07-27 · cs.SE

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{3FS5V5ZIJHKGBTOTP3EFLKCV37}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-29T00:25:04.127954Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d965daf72849d460cdd37ec855a855dfee5ddaca249872054ecb2d6c453733b1

Aliases

arxiv: 2607.25126 · arxiv_version: 2607.25126v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2607.25126 · pith_short_12: 3FS5V5ZIJHKG · pith_short_16: 3FS5V5ZIJHKGBTOT · pith_short_8: 3FS5V5ZI

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/3FS5V5ZIJHKGBTOTP3EFLKCV37 \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: d965daf72849d460cdd37ec855a855dfee5ddaca249872054ecb2d6c453733b1

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1c779d3b8adaaa3f5ff9abaa15e85c95ccf21a77d952b40f6a812aa112a04228",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SE",
    "submitted_at": "2026-07-27T22:40:29Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "13ffd771c71605d840c12ad214dd3764822b4c2012caa2b8ed36a73e5bfa4fb6"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2607.25126",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}