[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] QSOS.org

[Joseph Lewis]

You're probably right, judging by the alexa ranking:
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/qsos.org

Although next month they could be huge :)

Joseph

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On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 11:12 AM, Lori Bowen Ayre <lori.ayre at galecia.com>wrote:

> I was interested in QSOS less for the features summary piece (which I agree
> is very inadaquate) than for the evaluation of the community or project.
>
> But if no one has ever heard about them, maybe not worth worrying about!
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> On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 9:35 AM, Galen Charlton <gmc at esilibrary.com> wrote:
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>> Hi,
>>
>>
>> On 08/03/2011 11:55 AM, Lori Bowen Ayre wrote:
>>
>>> Has anyone ever heard of this group?  See http://www.qsos.org/?p=137
>>>
>>
>> FWIW, I hadn't heard of them until now, and some superficial Googling
>> doesn't show any sign that that they've attracted much buzz or influence in
>> procurement or decision processes.  Since qsos.org appears to have
>> originated in France, I asked Paul Poulain about it, and he either hadn't
>> heard of it or it didn't make much of an impression.
>>
>> The statement "Licence très stricte, comme la GPL, Score 0/2" in the
>> evaluations of Koha, Evergreen, and PMB don't inspire confidence, as that
>> begs the question of how one evaluates the level of freedom of a given FLOSS
>> license.
>>
>> That quibble aside, I could see an evaluation framework like QSOS being
>> useful (sort of like an OpenRFP that has, well, more openness), but it
>> doesn't strike me as being a shortcut for creating feature comparison lists,
>> especially since one part of the QSOS process seems to be figuring out what
>> feature areas to evaluate.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Galen
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