FLOSSmole - Collaborative collection and analysis of free/libre/open source project data

FLOSSmole is a meta-repository, created in 2014, of Free Libre Open Source Software projects data, which allows getting, using and/or donating Open Source project data with the next aims:

• freely provide data about free, libre, and open source software (FLOSS) projects in multiple formats for anyone to download;
• integrate donated data & scripts from other research teams;
  
• provide a community for researchers to discuss public data about FLOSS development.

FLOSSmole itself collects also data from software development forges, although, as explained before, it also accepts data donations.

In order to get data available in FLOSSmole, three options exist:

1. Flat delimited files
   Available in link FLOSSdata. The files are named with the abbreviation of the forge or source (e.g. Sourceforge is "SF", GitHub is "GH", and so on and so forth).
2. SQL files (mysql creates and inserts, generated from mysqldump)
   Available in next link: FLOSSdata. These files all start with the word "datamart", then the forge abbreviation, then the date. 
3. Direct database access
   Request access by joining the FLOSSmole mailing list.

Regarding the usage of the data, some resources are available as well:

• Database schema documents to help on figure out data available.
  
• Data collection details. An additional source of documentation about each of the sources of data existing on FLOSSmole.
  
• Examples such as visualizations and queries demonstrate potential uses of the FLOSSmole data.
  
• Research publications related FLOSSmole.
  
• Mailing list is also a good help to start on data usage. 

Several data  covering the period 2004 to present are available for usage, and growing with data sets from over 1500 web-based collection operations, including data for millions of open source projects and their developers.

What are you waiting to start using them?