For some time now I’ve been active on Ohloh. Ohloh is a website dedicated to tracking open source software development. By retrieving data from Source Code Management (SCM) systems Ohloh generates statistics about languages, projects and users. Thanks to this developers get access to new information concerning their projects, which in turn can be used to improve those projects. However, the real value of Ohloh will be found by outsiders of a project. Ohloh’s project pages are simple and provide those details that one might need to determine the status of a project. And while it might sound insignificant, it’s actually quite important as it might be a user’s first impression of a project.

All in all, I think Ohloh is an interesting service. Certainly something worth a visit. And if you decide to visit Ohloh, don’t forget to visit my user page too.