A reference model for evaluating performance of open source community
Shihu An, Xiaobin Wang, Luchuan Liu · 2011
Open source communities play an important role in open source software's development. Performance shows the result of all activities in an open source community (OSC). Based on the analysis of the components of an OSC and its knowledge sharing approaches, a reference model for evaluating performance of an OSC is presented, which consists of a new index system and a method based on Delphi-Ideal for evaluating performance of the OSC. A formula measuring open source software's knowledge exchange index with knowledge currency unit is also given. Finally, a concrete example is illustrated in this paper.