HOW TOIDENTIFY

FUTURE PROOFOPEN SOURCE PROJECTS

Henry Huang09.2013

In the Old Days

Anyone Remember

Classified Information

Content Indexing

GOOGLE CAN ANSWER

Do Math1+1=2

Convert Units

Help You Thinkwith

Realtime Results

Help You Shop

EVEN THIS

How old is Michael Jackson?

AND THISBest buffet in Vegas?

Google Doesn’t Do Multiple ChoiceYET

Not Straight Answer

But We are Smarter, Right?

Hmmm....

I Know How to Search withKeywords

Duh! Everybody Does

Some Even Use it to Trick YOU

Because Google isBiased

WAT!

PageRank

Search Engine OptimizationSEO

Regions (Language Barriers)

TYPICAL SEARCH RESULTS

• Popular but Outdated Piece of Information

• Some Commercial Websites

ResolveSearch Engine Short Comings

Narrow Down Search Results

Comparison Charts

Use Comparative Terms

What’s the best “keywords”...

A vs B vs C

Fight SEO

Search More Recent Results

Search Blogs

Search the “Right” Words

Ask Expert’s Opinion

Colleagues

Groups

Mailing Listor

Forum

FUTURE PROOF

Focus on Projects that HostConferences

Find Conference Slides

Find Conference Videos

Make Sure the Community is VIBRANT

❰Google Trend❱

Google Trend Graphs

Open Source Project Activity

Number of Downloads

When was the Last Update?

User Review/Rating(Source Forge Only)

User Review/Rating(Source Forge Only)

❰Case Studies❱

❰Scalability

Interoperability❱

Lots of New Terminologies

¢ommercial $upport

❰Be Proactive❱

Subscribe to Expert Blogs

Organize Ideas with ...

Mind Maps

Evernote

Subscribe to Conference Slides & Videos

Social Media ¿

Filtering Useful Content