Project Evaluation Activity V1

Project Evaluation

Preparation:

Description	Learners will gain an understanding of the breadth of available FOSS projects. Learners will also gain an understanding of the identifying characteristics of FOSS projects including pattern of contributions, patterns of commits, programming languages used, and more.
Source
Prerequisite Knowledge	Completion of Browsing a Forge Activity or understanding of SourceForge and Ohloh; Understanding of course in which students will be participating in an HFOSS project.
Estimated Time to Completion	60-90 minutes
Learning Objectives	Ability to: 1)Utilize the rubric to identify likely HFOSS projects.
Materials/Environment	Link to SIGCSE paper. Access to Internet/Web and web browser.
Additional Information	Lists of projects
Rights	Licensed CC BY-SA

Background:

Describe the rubric and how it is used.

Directions:

Part 1-Evaluate Mission Critical Criteria

Evaluate viability

1. Size/Scale/Complexity
   1. Go to Ohloh.net, type Mifos into the Search Projects box, Click on Mifos to see the Project Summary page
   2. Scroll down to the Community area and calculate the average number of contributors in the last month. The average was 9 so it passed the minimum average number of contributors metric of 6.
   3. Go to the Mifos web page and choose Tech Overview from the Contributors tab. From examination of the technology stack, the architecture looks modular and further search shows it is documented elsewhere on the site.
   4. Result-Based on the modular design and meeting the minimum average number of contributors metric, the project is scored a 2 for size/scale/complexity.