SourceForge acquires Ohloh to target ads at open source coders
SourceForge, the public company whose properties include code repository SourceForge.net and tech news site Slashdot, announced today that it’s acquiring Ohloh, a community and database for open source programmers. This is SourceForge’s first acquisition since 2000.
Bellevue, Wash.-based Ohloh says it has compiled the world’s largest directory of open source projects and coders (more than 300,000 each, gathered from 3,500 websites). Ohloh also ranks those coders based on the importance of their contributions to major open… Continue Reading
Ohloh ranks the world’s coders, and helps them advertise too
Ohloh, a company that ranks the nation’s top open source coders, is opening its service to let other developers to track and rank their own teams.
It’s the latest move by Ohloh, a Bellevue, WA company that already distributes its coder profiles and related data to about 5,000 open source sites. The Ohloh profiles can serve as advertising for these sites, because the profiles show how active their open source development projects are.
Here’s how it works…. Continue Reading