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What are factors that movitate users to use an IFHOSP site?

4.1. Ease of use, high usability
Terence Ease of use
Alvin Accessibility (is the site well designed and easy to navigate? Does is respond quickly?)
Brendan easy access
Brendan ease of use
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4.2. Available 24 hours a day
Mark availability and reliability
Phil it is readily available (24 hours a day)
4.3. Reliable
Mark availability and reliability
Alvin Reliability. (is the machine going to get broken into? Are the CVS servers going to go down? Do they do regular backups?)
Brendan reliable stuff
Leslie Speed, reliability, good cms system lot's of software
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4.4. Low Cost or Free
Schulhoff Cost - Hosting of the project is free.
Alvin Cost. (does the site have a monthly fee? Are there lots of banner ads?)
Brendan free stuff
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4.5. Sufficiently large capacity (e.g. storage, cpu, memory)
Mark capacity (memory, storage, cpu)
Garrett The availability to use standard tools (e.g., CVS), yet hosted in a production capacity.
4.6. Fast access, responsive (high bandwidth and power server)
Mark speed
Alvin Accessibility (is the site well designed and easy to navigate? Does is respond quickly?)
Brendan fast access
Leslie Speed, reliability, good cms system lot's of software
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4.7. The tools provided are standard and commonly used
Garrett The availability to use standard tools (e.g., CVS), yet hosted in a production capacity.
Schulhoff Common interface - Developers do not have to learn a new interface when joining a project.
4.8. The tools provided are effective and productive
Luke The desire to remove the burden of maintaining all the tools themselves, and to be able to spent more time on development of the project.
4.9. Convenience - provides resources are difficult for an individual to maintain (e.g. web site)
Terence Provides resources not individually available (e.g. web-site)
Jacob One stop prepakced solution that provides a great deal of needed
infrastructure that otherwise would be reinvented
Schulhoff Convenience - Not having to maintain a web site as project interface.
Alvin Available tools
Luke The desire to remove the burden of maintaining all the tools themselves, and to be able to spent more time on development of the project.
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4.10. A common location that facilitates code advertising
Terence Common location facilitates code advertising
4.11. High security
Alvin Reliability. (is the machine going to get broken into? Are the CVS servers going to go down? Do they do regular backups?)
4.12. Many tools are provided
Jacob One stop prepakced solution that provides a great deal of needed
infrastructure that otherwise would be reinvented
Alvin Available tools
4.13. Quality information such as news and advice
Jason If the site gives useful information (news or advice)
Noah Quality of contents.
4.14. Quality documentation or meta documentation such as roadmaps
Brendan good documentation
Noah Quality of contents.
Noah Ease of access, including searchability, online documentation, site structure etc.
Noah Meta documentation like roadmap, presentation of team members, explanation of philosophy and rules.
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4.15. The development team of the IFHOSP is responsive
Noah Responsiveness of development teams.
4.16. The site is frequently updated
Brendan latest stuff
4.17. Well designed site structure for navigation
Alvin Accessibility (is the site well designed and easy to navigate? Does is respond quickly?)
Noah Ease of access, including searchability, online documentation, site structure etc.
4.18. Availability of search function(s)
Joanne Having a quick way to find large projects to work on (like Mozilla). The reasons for wanting to work on these kinds of projects may vary (for example to gain experience ir to build a reputation).
Noah Ease of access, including searchability, online documentation, site structure etc.
4.19. To be part of the community
Luke To be part of the community and attract more contributors.
4.20. To attract more contributors
Phil (almost guaranteed) ability to get a response/feedback
Luke To be part of the community and attract more contributors.
4.21. To get response from users and other interested parties
Phil (almost guaranteed) ability to get a response/feedback
4.22. To gain reputation
Joanne Having a quick way to find large projects to work on (like Mozilla). The reasons for wanting to work on these kinds of projects may vary (for example to gain experience ir to build a reputation).
4.23. To gain experience
Joanne Having a quick way to find large projects to work on (like Mozilla). The reasons for wanting to work on these kinds of projects may vary (for example to gain experience ir to build a reputation).
4.24. To compete with other projects
Luke Competition with other projects, so long as the IFHOSP maintains activity reports and rankings
4.25. Users of software hosted on IFHOSP will use the site
Jason If they are using the software available on that site

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