Open Governance Index

The Open Governance Index measures the true openness of eight open source projects – Android, Qt, Symbian, MeeGo, Mozilla, WebKit, Linux and Eclipse – and analyses how governance, and not licenses, tell the full story of a project’s openness, across transparency, influence and control.

Website: http://www.visionmobile.com/product/open-governance-index/

Main Elements

• Access
• Development
• Derivatives
• Community

Questions

• How do we implement Open Access?
  • Is the source code available to all developers, at the same time?
  • What open source licenses we use?
  • How do we support the developers? Do they have open access to the mailing list, bug-tracking, developer documentation and other tools?
  • Is the Roadmap publicly available?
  • Is the decision-making transparent? Is the whole process described publicly and are the meeting minutes open to everyone?
• How do we implement Open Collaborative Development?
  • Are the requirements and the process to become a contributor transparent?
  • Is the contributions and acceptance process transparent?
  • Is it transparent who made the contribution?
  • Is it transparent who are the contributors to a project?
• Derivatives
  • Is there any control how derivatives can be used, shared etc?
• more questions ...

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