Open Source Research

Hi all, I'm conducting research on the open source community and I was wondering if there is someone who could answer some questions regarding the process used by the PHP development community. If this information is online, I would appreciate a link to it. If not, I would greatly appreciate the chance to correspond via e-mail or phone. The purpose of the paper is to identify the best procedural methods used by the open source community and propose a certification method to help the open source community compete with large software vendors by boosting the confidence of businesses that are hesitant to embrace open-source for their need. Taylor Davenport P.S. I've used PHP for many years, thanks for all the hard work!