Context and motivation: Contribution Management helps firms engaged in Open Source Software (OSS) ecosystems to motivate what they should contribute and when, but also what they should focus their resources on and to what extent. Such guidelines are also referred to as contribution strategies. The motivation for developing tailored contribution strategies is to maximize return on investment and sustain the influence needed in the ecosystem. Question/Problem: We aim to develop a framework to help firms understand their current situation and create a starting point to develop an effective contribution management process. Principal ideas/results: Through a design science approach, a prototype framework is created based on literature and validated iteratively with expert opinions through interviews. Contribution: In this research preview, we present our initial results after our first design cycle and consultation with one experienced OSS manager at a large OSS oriented software-intensive firm. The initial validation highlights importance of stakeholder identification and analysis, as well as the general need for contribution management and alignment with internal product planning. This encourages future work to develop the framework further using expert and case validation.

翻译：· 问题/问题:我们的目标是制定一个框架,帮助企业了解其目前的状况,并创建一个出发点,以制定有效的贡献管理程序。主要想法/成果:通过设计科学方法,根据文献建立一个原型框架,并通过访谈与专家意见反复验证。