We like to tout how many projects we have in Ohloh. It is right on the home page – today, the number is 550,869. Thats a lot of projects! By any measure, the world of FOSS is a big one. … Continue reading →

EclipseCon 2012: Ohloh’s Rich Sands interviews James Governor and Donnie Berkholz of the analyst firm RedMonk. The topic: how data analytics is changing both the way that FOSS projects understand and manage themselves, and how users of FOSS can use … Continue reading →

There is a great post by Andy Lester, entitled “14 Ways to Contribute to Open Source without Being a Programming Genius or a Rock Star“, in which he describes the dilemma of so many prospective contributors to FOSS: The most … Continue reading →

Back when Ohloh was young, blogs, wikis and other content management systems were also a bit immature. So the original ohloh.net included basic wiki functionality, and the ability to display articles in chronological order – a blog. As content management … Continue reading →

Adding projects on Ohloh has never been a simple task. The old way – fill out this long, daunting form (which doesn’t even ask you for where the code is – you add that later!):   Not at all friendly. … Continue reading →

Each year, Black Duck Software identifies the top new open source projects in the Open Source Rookies of the Year program. Compiled using data from Ohloh and the Black Duck KnowledgeBase, the Ohloh team wants to give a shout out … Continue reading →

With any evolving site like Ohloh, there will be features that the team thought were a good idea at the time, but that in practice don’t get used much. Two such features: journals, and non-FOSS contributor positions, are being removed … Continue reading →