Answer from LukeSummary Shown |
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Inviting environment: This means that the tools must be easy to use, not take too much time away from actual develpoment and allow for easy addition to becoming a project member. Cooperation and collaboration, encourage involvement of developers to share the load of development Easy to use, high usability |
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Flexibility: Open Source projects are dynamic and can be very fast moving and have the potential to break new ground. The tools must then be flexible and allow the project admins as much control over the tools as possible. Flexibility in tools for rapid project administration |
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Credit: There must be a kudo system to credit active contributors A system to attribute credit |
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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. The tools provided are effective and productive Convenience - provides resources are difficult for an individual to maintain (e.g. web site) |
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To be part of the community and attract more contributors. To be part of the community To attract more contributors |
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Competition with other projects, so long as the IFHOSP maintains activity reports and rankings To compete with other projects |
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Fear of losing control of their project. Wanting to have more control and not wanting to develop software in an Open Source/Free Software style |
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Not having all the tools they need to maintain the project on the given IFHOSP site. Not providing the tools or the features needed |
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Fear that the IFHOSP will shut down and disrupt the project Unreliable Not trusting the host of the IFHOSP |
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More time to spend on the project itself, instead of wasteful management overhead. Decrease time in administration of an IFHOSP site individually |
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More community awareness which can result in more contributors Getting people to contribute to the development from all over world Building or joining a community and increase sense of belonging |
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Additional sense of being part of a community Building or joining a community and increase sense of belonging |
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Greater possibility for community kudos Greater possibility for getting community credit |
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Sometimes the tools on the IFHOSP are missing features that are needed by a given project, and when using an IFHOSP there is less likelyhood that they will implement better tools because there is hope that one day the IFHOSP will add the features. This could leave the project without needed tools indefinitly. Users may hope an IFHSOP to implement new features and not to program them themselves. These features may never get implemented. |
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Being at the mercy of the IFHOSP's changes, downtimes and bugs. Lossing control over hosting uptimes and downtimes Loss control of the changes, quality and disappearing of toolset hosted |
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Kudos/goodwill from the community To get credit and/or respect from the community |
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Possible banner ad revenue hopes. Hoping to get revenue |
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Greater awareness of the admins other buisness services To get publicity for other services of a company by hosting an IFHOSP site |
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Expense in bandwidth and development effort Network/Bandwidth limitation Lack of revenue sources Too much effort on administration, development and maintenance of server(s) |
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Lack of revenue sources Lack of revenue sources |
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Maintance effort Too much effort on administration, development and maintenance of server(s) |
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Goodwill/Kudos from the community. Get credit or status in Open Source/Free Software communities |
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Greater awareness of the admins other money making services To get publicity for other services of a company by hosting an IFHOSP site |
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Great expense in maintaining and improving the site Great expense in maintaining and improving the site |
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Stress of having the responsibility to the users, and the knowledge that not being able to keep the site up will have a very negative result. Too much effort and stress in maintaining and improving the site to the expectation |
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Anyone wanting to setup an IFHOSP needs to be aware of the responsibility involved. They must be open and honest with their users so that if a problem is growing, that the users are not blindsided. Anyone wanting to setup an IFHOSP needs to be aware of the responsibility involved An IFHOSP should be run in an open fashion and users should be well informed |
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Users must be aware that an IFHOSP is taking on a great burden and that they must give them all the credit possible. Giving hosts of IFHOSP sites every credit that they deserve |