Ohloh

Just found out about Ohloh, which is an open-source community website that allows users to give each other “kudos”, and the number of kudos that you give and receive affects your standing within the open source community.

What I found most interesting though is that Ohloh will aggregate information about projects gleaned from the source control commits, source code, and community status of the developers. It also seems to find licensing markers in source code and display how much of the source is provided in a particular license as well as giving warnings about potential conflicts. It’s really interesting since it gives some info you might not have have known about some very high profile open source projects.

For instance, the profile page for Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA) looks like this:

So it gives you what kind of looks like a risk assessment for the project. The profile page for ALSA looks pretty good. Screen on the other hand,