FLOSSmetrics

FLOSSmetrics (Free/Libre and Open Source Software Metrics) was a Project, funded by the European Commission, whose main objective was to retrieve and analyse a big database with information and metrics about Free/Open Source Software projects using already existing methodologies, and relying on already developed tools.

The project achieved the retrieval of more than 2800 FLOSS projects in Melquiades (lamentably down nowadays), by using existing Open Source tools such as CVSAnalY.

Among the most important broadcast activities, a talk in FOSSDEM 2009.

The main objectives of the project were:

- Identification and evaluation of sources of data.
- Creation of a comprehensive database from previous sources.
- Integration of already available tools to process data and create a complete platform for its availability.
- Maintenance of the empirical database by automation of extraction of data of thousands of Open Source projects with extraction tools.
- Develop of studies, (benchmarking, simulations and comparisons of FLOSS projects).
- Propagation and exploitation of the results.

To achieve the objectives, delivery of next Work Packages (WP) was performed:

• WP1 - Data Sources
• WP2 - Retrieval System
• WP3 - Database
• WP4 - Analyses
• WP5 - High Level Studies
• WP6 - Visualization
• WP8 - SMEs
• WP9 - Industrial Exp./Val.
• WP10 - Exploitation
• WP11 - Productivity

Among the different documents resultant of the project, FLOSS Guide for SMEs (small and medium enterprises) is a very interesting one, advent to present a set of guidelines and suggestions for the adoption of open source software within SMEs

On 2010, elaboration of a Final Report  concluded this very interesting and fruitful collaboration project.