About
Since 2004, FLOSSmole aims to:
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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 contains: Over 1 TB of data covering the period 2004-now, and growing with data sets from over 400 web-based collection operations, and growing each month. This includes data for millions of open source projects and their developers.
How to Cite FLOSSmole Data
Howison, J., Conklin, M., & Crowston, K. (2006). FLOSSmole: A collaborative repository for FLOSS research data and analyses. International Journal of Information Technology and Web Engineering, 1(3), 17–26. (More)
All original data is copyright of its owners.
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If you use the data, please cite the source as shown above.
Please be ethical in your use of this data. You may wish to consult the publication Ethical decision-making and Internet research: Recommendations from the AOIR ethics working committee.
Please be aware that your use of this data for research may require approval by your company's or institution's IRB (Institutional Review Board).
