Hi! Ohloh.net is a Wikipedia-ish database of FLOSS projects & developers.
Like Wikipedia, it is crowd-sourced. It is one of the most important FLOSS-related sites/projects out there, because it makes it very easy to discover and evaluate software projects. By analyzing the publicly available source code, we can get an indication of the vitality of a project. By providing this visibility, Ohloh.net is helping Free Software users and developers find each other, and increases the success rate, which leads to more collaboration opportunities. You can evaluate developer contributions, and know who are the best people to contact (ex.: you want to sponsor a feature request). You can also see the license, programming languages, and many other things. More info about Ohloh.net: http://meta.ohloh.net/us/ I encourage you to add projects you like to your "stacks" and give "kudos" to contributors you appreciate. I am a happy, active volunteer on Ohloh.net and I proposed that we should have a community day, just after LibrePlanet, and here it is: http://meta.ohloh.net/2014/03/ohloh-community-day-ocd14/ (it's free but please register to help us plan the day) There is also this FSF event on Monday: https://www.fsf.org/events/seminar-on-gpl-enforcement-and-legal-ethics Somewhat related to the topic of evaluating & picking software, I developed this list of criteria, which I am sure will be useful to others: http://suite.tiki.org/Tiki+Suite+Component+criteria This list (which includes Ohloh.net stats) was instrumental in picking software for Tiki Suite, a selection of free server, web, mobile and desktop apps with a concerted effort for greater interoperability and security, which is aimed at small & medium-sized organizations. The Tiki Suite is especially suited to decentralized and knowledge-centric organizations and offers the features that what 80% of the people use 80% of the time (collaboration, office productivity, publishing, etc.). Features include: Email + Wiki + CMS + Groupware + Commerce + Accounting + Document Management + CRM + Web conferencing + Desktop sharing + PBX VOIP Telephony + Instant messaging & presence + Video management + E-learning, etc. https://suite.tiki.org/Tiki+Suite Here are Ohloh stats for Tiki Suite components: https://suite.tiki.org/Tiki+Suite+Ohloh (You can include such badges on your own project pages!) Another very interesting project is https://www.versioneye.com/ This one is to track software libraries. While Ohloh.net can & does track libraries, it's more designed for complete projects. I'll give 2 lighting talks, covering Tiki Suite, Ohloh.net & VersionEye.com https://libreplanet.org/wiki/LibrePlanet:Conference/2014/Lightning_Talks Best regards, -- Marc Laporte http://MarcLaporte.com http://Tiki.org/MarcLaporte http://AvanTech.net