How SOS Open Source Evolved in its First Year

May 5, 2011 by · Leave a Comment
Filed under: Roberto Galoppini 

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

July 27, 2010 by · 2 Comments
Filed under: Roberto Galoppini 

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

May 11, 2010 by · 10 Comments
Filed under: Roberto Galoppini 

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.

Read the dogfood label first.Read the dogfood label first.

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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