Cluster analysis of participants of open source design community

Firstly, a complex network model of participants in the open source design community OpenIDEO is built, and the network index such as degree and degree distribution of complex network model are analyzed. By clustering analysis based on the network index, participants are divided into three categories, respectively the core users, information dissemination users and ordinary users. In addition, we assume that the proportion and activeness of information transmission users plays a key role for the evolution of the network. Then, by clustering participants of each project and analyzing the performance of each project, the assumption is verified. The study result is helpful to optimize the mechanism construction of the open source design community and to promote the benign development of the community, which lay the foundation of improving the efficiency and quality of group development.