How SOS Open Source Evolved in its First Year

SOS Open Source few days ago completed its first year of life, a good time to look back and and see where we have been and to recognize methods and technologies that have helped us on our journey.

SOS Open Source started back in 2009 as a solution to a customer problem: how to find, evaluate and compare open source projects. Having been looking for years at open source assessment methodologies, our first step was to grab the best from all the existing ones, possibly avoiding common mistakes and pitfalls. Read more

Open Source Survey Tools: LimeSurvey

SOS Open Source last week evaluated LimeSurvey, the PHP open source survey web application to create on line surveys, translated in many languages and downloaded over 485.000 times. Read more

Evaluate Open Source Software

Open Source software selection starts with the creation of a short-list of open source packages, and the very next step is the evaluation of all candidates.

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Open source projects are planned, developed and maintained often using accessible Revision Control systems (e.g. Bazaar, CVS, Git, Mercurial or SVN), Collaboration (blogs, forums, IRC channels, mailing-lists and wikis) and Tracking Systems (e.g. bugzilla, GNATS, OTRS, trac). Despite going through them all can be time-consuming, those are the primary source of information to know more about an open source project. Read more

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  • "Software De Código Aberto: Melhores Diretórios E Listas Para Encontrar E Avaliar Programas Open Source" MasterNewMedia.br, May 2011
  • "Open Source Software Tools And Directories: Where To Find Them, How To Evaluate Them" MasterNewMedia, March 2011
  • "The role of Open Source and Free software in today’s world, excellences, issues and frontiers to cross: an expert talk with Roberto Galoppini" Meedabyte, February 2011
  • "IT: Updated law presses public administrations to share software" OSOR News, February 2011
  • "SOS Open Source" TodoBI, January 2011
  • "The choice engine is an Italian job" ZDNet, October 2010
  • "Open Source Project Filtering" Content Here, July 2010
  • "Managing Open Source Risk and Keeping It Legal" OSTATIC, May 2010
  • "Picking the right open source projects" Infoworld, April 2010
  • "This Roman knows how to spot the best open source" ZDNet, April 2010
  • "Funambol Scores High In Galoppini SOS Open Source Software Evaluation" Funambol Press Release, April 2010

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  Roberto has over 25 years experience in the IT field, and has spent the last 12 years working in the intersection of open source software and business development. Roberto has taken an active interest in different open source projects and organizations, he has served on advisory boards, and helped large IT vendors, open source vendors and customers to design and deploy their open source strategies. After serving as Senior Director of Business Development at SourceForge for over 4 years, in 2016 he started a new company called Business Follows., whose mission is to is to help developers, companies and organizations to make Open Source development a key part of their business strategies. He is the editor of commercial open source blog.

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