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35	35	The research design will employ mixed methodologies including literature and artifact reviews, surveys, environmental studies, and interviews supplemented by historiographical analysis of specific projects and corporate users. The intent is to use iterative triangulation to derive variables that describe “business readiness” to be integrated into a maturity-indexing assessment tool. The tool will be openly reviewed for comment and improvement. The investigation will include:
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37		-* Literature review of expert and popular sources to identify business and management expectations of a range of stakeholders for assessing OSS infrastructure relative to perceived business needs.
38		-* Content analysis of industry RFP/RFI’s for software infrastructure as evidence of actual expectations considered by decision-makers, investors, and end-users while assessing infrastructure reflecting perceived business needs.
	37	+* Literature review of expert and popular sources to identify business and management expectations of a range of stakeholders when assessing OSS infrastructure relative to business needs.
	38	+* {{id name="ID0"/}}Analysis of standard industry documentation—RFP/RFI’s, VC prospectuses, etc.—to identify expectations considered by decision-makers, investors, and end-users when assessing OSS infrastructure relative to business needs.
39	39	* Interview industry leaders to identify expectations when assessing infrastructure.
40		-* Literature review of expert and popular sources to identify successful open source projects and key metrics that define successful projects, leading to review of OSS projects based on the previously identified quantitative metrics.
41		-* General surveys of OSS community members and business leaders to identify those projects perceived as “successful”.
42		-* Observational techniques to understand the environment and behaviors of open source software development and community practices.
	40	+* {{id name="ID1"/}}Literature review of expert and popular sources to identify successful open source projects and key metrics that define successful projects, leading to review of OSS projects based on the previously identified quantitative metrics.
	41	+* General surveys of OSS community and business leaders to identify projects perceived as “successful”.
	42	+* Observational techniques to understand the environment and behaviors of OSS development and practices.
43	43	* Interviews with OSS maintainers to identify best practices.
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51	51	The Open Source Initiative enjoys an international reputation as the stewards of open source software, with an extensive membership of open source software projects and affiliated communities, as well as relationships with government and industry representation through a variety of partnerships and initiatives. This unique relationship provides access to individuals, projects, and communities who will have access to resources valuable to this research.
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53		-* Organizational metrics (OSS projects and adopting entities): users & staff, revenue & costs, adoption & contributions, lines of code, downloads, etc.
	53	+* Organizational metrics (OSS projects and adopting entities): users & staff, revenue & costs, adoption & contributions, etc.
54	54	* Operational practices (OSS projects and adopting entities): community & communications, roles & governance, development life-cycle, technical infrastructure, business methods & models, etc.
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