A reference model for evaluating performance of open source community

Author

An, Shihu ; Wang, Xiaobin ; Liu, Luchuan

Author_Institution

Sch. of Comput. & Inf. Eng., Shandong Univ. of Finance, Jinan, China

fYear

2011

fDate

16-18 Sept. 2011

Firstpage

31

Lastpage

34

Abstract

Open source communities play an important role in open source software´s development. Performance shows the result of all activities in an open source community (OSC). Based on the analysis of the components of an OSC and its knowledge sharing approaches, a reference model for evaluating performance of an OSC is presented, which consists of a new index system and a method based on Delphi-Ideal for evaluating performance of the OSC. A formula measuring open source software´s knowledge exchange index with knowledge currency unit is also given. Finally, a concrete example is illustrated in this paper.

Keywords

knowledge management; public domain software; software engineering; Delphi-Ideal method; knowledge currency unit; knowledge exchange index; open source community; open source software development; reference model; Communities; Educational institutions; Indexes; Libraries; Open source software; Organizations; Delphi-Ideal method; Open source community(OSC); Performance evaluation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electrical and Control Engineering (ICECE), 2011 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Yichang

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-8162-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICECENG.2011.6057372

Filename

6057372