Common Objectives and Possible Benefits of using a FOSPHost site
Common Objectives
- To support concurrent and collaborative software development (Q1.2)
- To enable distributed software development for developers from different geographic locations (Q1.1)
- To facilitate communication between developers and allow potential developers to contribute to projects (Q1.3, Q1.18)
- To facilitate communication between developers, users and related parties (programmers, designers, documentation writers, advocates/salesman, etc.) (Q1.4, Q1.5)
- To facilitate quality communication through a variety of tools and means (Q1.38)
- To build a sense of community of between developers for a project (Q1.29)
- To implement software development processes that are better than common standard (Q1.20)
Possible Benefits
- Increase communication within the developers and getting people to contribute to the development from all over world (Q6.2, Q6.6)
- Increase communication between the developers, users and related parties (programmers, designers, documentation writers, advocates/salesman, etc.) (Q6.3)
- Facilitation of developers to update the source code in the repository directly and reduction of the need to interact with the project leader to change the code (Q6.1)
- Facilitating collaboration and thus reduction of duplicated effort or decrease the possibility of producing multiple non-synchronized versions of software (Q6.17, Q6.26)
- Obtaining up to date information (Q6.20)
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