Re: Community digest, Vol 1 #106 - 2 msgs

Hi there,

Does anyone know a case study on open source and transaction costs economy ?

Thank you all.

Marcus Vinicius - M.Sc. Student - COPPE-UFRJ
Technoscience Antropology

"Many eyeballs tame complexity"
Eric Raymond
The Cathedral and the Bazaar




community-request-yzvPICuk2ADJNcJ45EAw5ze48wsgrGvP@public.gmane.org wrote:

>Send Community mailing list submissions to
>	[email protected]
>
>To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit
>	http://opensource.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/community
>or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to
>	community-request-yzvPICuk2ADJNcJ45EAw5ze48wsgrGvP@public.gmane.org
>
>You can reach the person managing the list at
>	community-admin-yzvPICuk2ADJNcJ45EAw5ze48wsgrGvP@public.gmane.org
>
>When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific
>than "Re: Contents of Community digest..."
>
>
>Today's Topics:
>
>   1. Metrics for OSS performance (Jorge)
>   2. Re: Metrics for OSS performance (James Howison)
>
>--__--__--
>
>Message: 1
>Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 07:24:29 -0800 (PST)
>From: Jorge <jorgelin-/[email protected]>
>To: [email protected]
>Subject: [F/OSS-Community] Metrics for OSS performance
>
>Hi there,
>This is my first visit to the list, and I am thrilled
>to find such a knowledgeable group!
>Does anyone know of any reference with a good (valid
>and reliable) mesure of "performance of Open Source
>Software"?
>
>Thanks a lot
>Jorge - Ivey - Western
>
>__________________________________
>Do you Yahoo!?
>Yahoo! Hotjobs: Enter the "Signing Bonus" Sweepstakes
>http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/signingbonus
>
>--__--__--
>
>Message: 2
>From: James Howison <[email protected]>
>Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 10:58:05 -0500
>To: FLOSS Community <[email protected]>
>Subject: [F/OSS-Community] Re: Metrics for OSS performance
>
>
>--Apple-Mail-18--416078331
>Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed
>
>On Jan 19, 2004, at 10:24 AM, Jorge wrote:
>
>  
>
>>Does anyone know of any reference with a good (valid
>>and reliable) mesure of "performance of Open Source
>>Software"?
>>    
>>
>
>This is an interesting question and AFAIK there isn't a canonical 
>answer.
>
>Kevin Crowston, Hala Annabi and I presented a paper on a related topic 
>at ICIS late last year.  It is a survey of success measures which I 
>think will be of use to you.  I just realized that this wasn't posted 
>to opensource.mit.edu which I'll do now.
>
>Meanwhile the project and paper is available here:
>
>http://crowston.syr.edu/floss/
>
>Is performance the same as success? Not exactly, but some of the issues 
>(and probably measures) are the same. And this is something that I want 
>to add to the Success Paper.
>
>Measuring success is hugely dependent on the goals of of the one doing 
>the measuring.  In Proprietary software development this defining power 
>rested almost wholly with the Executive management, who largely relied 
>on the advice of accounts.  While commercial performance is still 
>relevant in FLOSS projects the cross-institutional nature of FLOSS 
>means that the power to define success lies much more directly with the 
>developers.
>
>I think that any definition or measure of performance will need to take 
>into account this element.
>
>Please keep in touch because performance is of great interest to us as 
>well.
>
>Best regards,
>James Howison
>
>--
>
>PhD Student
>Information Studies
>Syracuse University
>
>--Apple-Mail-18--416078331
>content-type: application/pgp-signature; x-mac-type=70674453;
>	name=PGP.sig
>content-description: This is a digitally signed message part
>content-disposition: inline; filename=PGP.sig
>content-transfer-encoding: 7bit
>
>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
>Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (Darwin)
>
>iEYEARECAAYFAkAL/pIACgkQ7Jk9Y2X9ze4SCgCggw/1sdekSbyJ+4mGDZuminU1
>TwAAn1q81HrC9GDQvukTsTuPyaTFAHd9
>=6Rvt
>-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
>
>--Apple-Mail-18--416078331--
>
>
>
>--__--__--
>
>_______________________________________________
>Community mailing list
>[email protected]
>http://opensource.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/community
>
>
>End of Community Digest
>
>
>  
>


-- 
Marcus Vinicius - Mestrando COPPE/UFRJ
Antropologia da Tecnociência
-- 

"Havendo suficientes parceiros 
Qualquer problema é passível de solução" 
Eric S. Raymond 
A Catedral e o Bazar 

"Freqüentemente, as soluções mais impressionantes e inovadoras 
Surgem da percepção de que o seu conceito do problema estava errado." Idem 

"A inspiração chega Mas ela tem que te encontrar trabalhando." 
Pablo Picasso