@conference {681, title = {Call for Quality: Open Source Software Quality Observation}, booktitle = {OSS2006: Open Source Systems (IFIP 2.13)}, series = {IFIP International Federation for Information Processing}, year = {2006}, pages = {57 - 62}, publisher = {Springer}, organization = {Springer}, abstract = {This paper describes how a Software Quality Observatory works to evaluate and quantify the quality of an Open Source project. Such a quality measurement can be used by organizations intending to deploy an Open Source solution to pick one of the available projects for use. We offer a case description of how the Software Quality Observatory will be applied to the KDE project to document and evaluate its quality practices for outsiders. }, keywords = {kde, quality}, doi = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/0-387-34226-5_6}, attachments = {https://flosshub.org/sites/flosshub.org/files/Call\%20for\%20Quality.pdf}, author = {de Groot, Adriaan and K{\"u}gler, Sebastian and Adams, Paul and Gousios, Giorgos} }