Answer from Noah

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Noah regards himself/herself as:

1. What are the objectives of an IFHOSP site?

1.1 To make useful software available to the world.
1.2 To facilitate the development of better software.
1.3 To facilitate the development of software that is affordable by everyone.
1.4 To provide a forum for communication between developers of Open Source software.
1.5 To provide training grounds for new developers.

2. What tools can be employed on an IFHOSP site and what are the important features and usability factors for each of them?

No Comment

3. What work practices and culture should be promoted?

3.1 Software Design Patterns.
3.2 Usability.
3.3 Development practices along the lines of Extreme Programming.
3.4 Clarity, simpleness of code.
3.5 Strict adherence to the selecetd style for the programming language used.

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

4.1 Quality of contents.
4.2 Ease of access, including searchability, online documentation, site structure etc.
4.3 Responsiveness of development teams.
4.4 Meta documentation like roadmap, presentation of team members, explanation of philosophy and rules.

5. What are barriers that prevent users from using an IFHOSP site?

5.1 Finding it.
5.2 Poor user interface.
5.3 Poor quality of information.
5.4 Low bandwidth.

6. What are the positive results for users in using an IFHOSP site?

6.1 No Comment.

7. What are the negative results for users in using an IFHOSP site?

7.1 No Comment.

8. What are factors that motivate adminstrators to setup or maintain an IFHOSP site?

8.1 Personal interest.
8.2 Sense of giving back to the community.
8.3 As a way to market the name of the company to prospective employees or customers.
8.4 As a way to get a piece of software adopted by a larger community, thus distributing the effort of maintaining and improving it over a larger number of hands.

9. What are barriers that prevent adminstrators from setting up or maintaining an IFHOSP site?

9.1 Available time.

10. What are the positive results for adminstrators in setting up or maintaining an IFHOSP site?

10.1 No Comment.

11. What are the negative results for adminstrators in setting up or maintaining an IFHOSP site?

11.1 No Comment.

12. What are other important issues in IFHOSP?

12.1 With sites like SourceForge, there is little need to set up your own infrastructure for an Open Source project. You can focus on more productive things, like the improvement of your favourite piece of software.


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Generated On: 27 Sep 2002