new features at ohloh
Having heard Ugo Cei
's presentation on Web 2.0 open source project directories just some days ago, I had another look at Ohloh, the open source project directory that offers some interesting metrics on listed open source projects - and to my surprise, Ohloh was improved with many new features:
exports or activity feeds, which would help creating mashups based on this data, and even if the metrics can be inaccurate and popularity can be faked, I like the concept and the way Ohloh presents the gathered data.
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's presentation on Web 2.0 open source project directories just some days ago, I had another look at Ohloh, the open source project directory that offers some interesting metrics on listed open source projects - and to my surprise, Ohloh was improved with many new features:
- adding a project to your stack has become much easier
- you get suggestions for software based on similar stacks
- you can find out what other projects people are using that have stacked a project
- there is a user and contributor map of users who have entered their location to their profile
- you get an experience report based on the commits you have done on open source projects, so you can prove you have 25 years of HTML experience
- you can give kudos to other developers and there is a ranking of contributors to open source projects based on activity and kudos' count
exports or activity feeds, which would help creating mashups based on this data, and even if the metrics can be inaccurate and popularity can be faked, I like the concept and the way Ohloh presents the gathered data.
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Thanks for the writeup on our new release. I was unaware of the ApacheCon session on OSS directories. I am disappointed (and mostly perplexed) that they didn't include Ohloh in the session overview. I'd love to learn more about what you got out of it and how it could help Ohloh improve.
Meanwhile we have doap support on our radar. We have some deeper stats than the standard doap schema describes - we'd love to make it available and enable interesting mashups.
Posted by Jason Allen on May 08, 2007 at 10:01 AM CEST #
Ugo Cei's presentation included a quick demo that combined Ohloh with Piggy Bank (http://simile.mit.edu/piggy-bank/) and the DOAP files provided by the Apache Software Foundation and the Exhibit RDF Browser(http://simile.mit.edu/exhibit/) to create a rich project listing of Apache Projects.
Posted by Lars Trieloff on May 09, 2007 at 11:05 PM CEST #