FLOSSMETRICS

FLOSSMETRICS

URL: http://www.flossmetrics.org

"FLOSSMETRICS will analyze in depth, from a quantitative point of view, a large quantity of projects, using mainly publicly available data sources. This analysis will help to better understand the landscape of libre software development, and to obtain factual data about it which can be used to improve libre software development itself (be it done in volunteer or corporate contexts), and to identify interesting practices that could be used in other contexts, but also to obtain indicators and data useful for companies willing to use libre software, or for public administrations intertested in its promotion or adoption. In addition, a huge database with quantitative data about thousands of libre software projects will be made available for the use of other research groups, what hopefully will act as a motivator to increase the research in this area."