Hi, what about having Wikimedia features as organization in Ohloh?
The proposal is interesting considering the current state of things:
MediaWiki seems to be stalled with the SVN to Git migration, and it is
close impossible to find out what other projects come from this community.
This would help or quest on community metrics, so here goes my humble
+1. I also volunteer with some work, basically following the steps of
https://github.com/wikimedia and pinging Sumana / here for anything else.
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Subject: Seeking feedback on new "Organizations" feature on Ohloh
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2012 18:22:54 +0000
From: Rich Sands <rsands(a)blackducksoftware.com>
To: metrics-wg(a)theopensourceway.org <metrics-wg(a)theopensourceway.org>
Hi all,
As I mentioned here recently, we're rolling out a new feature on Ohloh
next week I thought might be interesting to this list. We're adding
rollups of projects into "Organizations", so project contributors and
others could see for example all the projects in the FooBar Foundation,
which ones are most active, the most active contributors, year over year
summary statistics, etc. I know many of you or folks in your
organizations have rolled your own metrics for watching your
foundation's projects and their activity. This feature isn't intended to
replace any of that, but rather to provide a view into how organizations
are contributing to and influencing FOSS. We've spoken with a number of
you who've expressed a need for this, and hope this new feature can be a
valuable resource.
We're rolling this out as a Beta feature and would love to get your
feedback. There are two aspects we're looking at: which organizations
steward which projects, and also which organizations contribute to which
projects through developers affiliated with those organizations, whether
they're for-profit, non-profit, governmental, or educational. Initially
we're concentrating on the first aspect - projects in organizations. In
a near-term iteration we'll add in the contribution bit, but for now
we're not showing stats on which projects an organization contributes to.
If you would like a preview of this feature before it is released, let
me know and I'll send you a URL and a name/password combo so you can
check it out. And if you'd like your organization to be one of the
featured ones when we open this up, I'd be thrilled to add you. All I
need is an organization name, a short description, a logo (if
available), a homepage URL for the organization, and a list of projects
to include. If your projects aren't already on Ohloh, I can help you add
them as well.
We're keen to make this useful, and we're rolling it out in a fairly raw
state, so that the FOSS community can help it evolve. Also, please don't
post about or publicize this new feature before it comes out next week.
Looking forward to hearing from you!
-- rms
Rich Sands
Director of Developer Communities
Black Duck Software, Inc.
rsands(a)blackducksoftware.com <mailto:rsands@blackducksoftware.com>
Cell: +1 617-283-0027
www.ohloh.net <http://www.ohloh.net>
Hi, I have been drafting the first community metrics monthly report at
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil/MediaWiki_Community_Metrics/Metrics…
Feedback welcome!
The plan was to publish it on November 1st, but as any good first
release there have been a couple of unexpected glitches in the last
minute. :)
1. Ohloh still hasn't scanned all repos for all of October (we have
hundreds). It's better to have all the data retrieved.
2. Sumana found instantly four cases of contributors detected as 'new'
that seem to be not new at all: thedj, Ori, Tychay and ankur. This is
because they have started contributing commits from a new email address,
and Ohloh considers them new contributors. Maybe there are more cases,
so why not giving ourselves a chance to fix these obvious cases.
FIXING YOUR DATA IN OHLOH TAKES ONLY 5 MINUTES
This is of course voluntary:
1. Register or login at http://ohloh.net
2. Go to https://www.ohloh.net/people and search your name, nicks, email
addresses.
3. Claim all the contributions that belong to you.
4. Also useful: if you are doing these contributions as an affiliated to
an organization (e.g. Wikimedia) make this explicit when claiming your work.
That's it. If you want to double check you can go to
https://www.ohloh.net/orgs/wikimedia , find the project(s) where you are
contributing and there your name or nick should appear under the list of
contributors.
Thank you for helping us providing more accurate data!
--
Quim