Visualize Open Source Communities
Ideas for discovering the unseen
I ❤ Open Source
– Sincerly Christian
Pet project .notes Started as a private project I hacked on in my spare time. .notes To explore new technologies
Agenda
- Why am I doing it?
- What are the next steps?
- Q&A / Your ideas
About me
- ThoughtWorker since Oct 2012
- I come from Open Source World
- Interested in make things visible
Why are open source communities interesting?
Communication between TYPO3 Devs vs. normal users?
Hard stuff! Different spheres
Provide Metrics for Community Managers™
They can easily plan budgets and move bolts and nuts
Provide Metrics for Association
Grant bugdets, see where the road could go on
It may be vague but better than nothing
Challenge
Lots of unstructured data
Requires at good knowledge about
THE COMMUNITY
All different
…Code Repositories, Mailing lists…
…Code Metrics…
…Forums, Conferences, Meetups…
…Tweets, Facebook, Ohloh…
…Internal data, Community News, Server-Logs…
Example: TYPO3
- Code Lines: 485 369
- Extensions: 5777+ (~12GB zipped)
- Active users: 80 000+
- 522 257 messages
- 145 319 topics
- 40+ languages
- 50+ Usergroups
Extensions = Think 'Packages', Gems
Is this BIG data?
Ideas
Lots…
Time
none…
Evaluating
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