We’re running an experiment to see how much money Google ads would generate for Ohloh. We’ll run them for a week or two and then decide whether to continue. This is a somewhat touchy issue – help us get it … Continue reading
New Service Idea
We’re in the midst of designing a new ohloh service. We’d like to discuss it with some qualified people. If you run a moderately-sized open source project, I’d like to chat with you about it (email or phone). Contact me … Continue reading
An Ohloh API is coming
One of the most difficult challenges of running Ohloh is deciding which, among the plethora of great ideas, to implement next. You (our community) are continually suggesting very interesting ideas – as well as requesting reasonable bug fixes. With our … Continue reading
Social Networking is NotWorking
As a coder by profession, I think I’m not alone when I say that I don’t see the appeal in using most social networks. They require lots of input (who are you? what do you do? where do you work? … Continue reading
Ohloh Interviews Stefan Küng
Stefan Küng is one of Ohloh’s top kudo’d open source contributors. He is the driving force behind TortoiseSVN – a wildly successful Subversion GUI. We thought it’d be interesting to learn a little more about him and his open source … Continue reading
New Home Page
As you can see, we’ve redesigned our home page. We hope this one provides a better glimpse into what is going on here at Ohloh. Feedback and suggestions are appreciated.
New Feature: Stack Sandbox
The new stack sandbox lets you experiment with software stacks to get suggestions and metrics for entire collections of open source software projects. The stack sandbox is separate from your permanent account stack, and anyone can create a new sandbox … Continue reading
New Feature: Compare Projects
The new project comparison page lets you create charts comparing metrics for up to three different projects. You can create timelines for total lines of code, number of contributors, and number of commits. We welcome your feedback. Let us know … Continue reading
New Feature: Email Invites
Help your friends and colleagues find and claim their open source contributions. If you’re a registered Ohloh user and contributor to an open source project, we want your help. You probably have friends who also contributed to open source but … Continue reading
New Feature: Missing Repositories
Ohloh generates reports by crawling a project’s source code repository. The vast majority of open source projects make this publicly available. However there are some cases where they either don’t make it available or where they happen to use software … Continue reading
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