OP2A - Assessing the Quality of the Portal of Open Source Software Products

Gabriele Basilico, Luigi Lavazza, Sandro Morasca, Davide Taibi, Davide Tosi

2011

Abstract

Open Source Software (OSS) communities do not often invest in marketing strategies to promote their products in a competitive way. Even the home pages of the web portals of well-known OSS products show technicalities and details that are not relevant for a fast and effective evaluation of the product’s qualities. So, final users and even developers, who are interested in evaluating and potentially adopting an OSS product, are often negatively impressed by the quality perception they have from the web portal of the product and turn to proprietary software solutions or fail to adopt OSS that may be useful in their activities. In this paper, we define an evaluation model and we derive a checklist that OSS developers and web masters can use to design their web portals with all the contents that are expected to be of interest for OSS final users. We exemplify the use of the model by applying it to the Apache Tomcat web portal and we apply the model to 22 well-known OSS portals.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Basilico G., Lavazza L., Morasca S., Taibi D. and Tosi D. (2011). OP2A - Assessing the Quality of the Portal of Open Source Software Products . In Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST, ISBN 978-989-8425-51-5, pages 184-193. DOI: 10.5220/0003275201840193

in Bibtex Style

@conference{webist11,
author={Gabriele Basilico and Luigi Lavazza and Sandro Morasca and Davide Taibi and Davide Tosi},
title={OP2A - Assessing the Quality of the Portal of Open Source Software Products},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST,},
year={2011},
pages={184-193},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003275201840193},
isbn={978-989-8425-51-5},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST,
TI - OP2A - Assessing the Quality of the Portal of Open Source Software Products
SN - 978-989-8425-51-5
AU - Basilico G.
AU - Lavazza L.
AU - Morasca S.
AU - Taibi D.
AU - Tosi D.
PY - 2011
SP - 184
EP - 193
DO - 10.5220/0003275201840193