Check out this "map" of organizations and their open gov/civic tech code on GitHub:
http://sbaack.com/2015/11/19/scraping-the-global-civic-tech-community-on-github-part-2.html This is what was recruited first via the Poplus.org unconference in Chile in May 2014 and then the big 3 month push I led to build membership on the Poplus Google Group: http://bit.ly/poplusgroup Imagine what we could do with this network if further networking and connecting gained sustained support? Funding the silos is great, but I think this map show an opportunity to dramatically boost code sharing, knowledge exchange and more. Steve From: Steven Clift <[email protected]> Date: Sun, Dec 13, 2015 at 10:47 AM Subject: Re: [Poplus] Scraping the global civic tech community on GitHub To: Stefan Baack <[email protected]> Cc: Poplus - Collaborative Civic Coding <[email protected]> If you haven't checked out the image of OUR org connections on GitHub among those who joined the Poplus.org Google Group, see it here: http://sbaack.com/2015/11/19/scraping-the-global-civic-tech-community-on-github-part-2.html The Follower network: http://sbaack.com/downloads/follower-network_2015-11-19.png The Contributer network: http://sbaack.com/downloads/contributor-network_2015-11-19.png So what do you "see" looking at these images? What opportunities for greater connections and collaboration among orgs/code might exist? Who is still MISSING from your GitHub experience with civic code from the Poplus network? Steve Steven Clift - Executive Director, E-Democracy.org [email protected] - +1 612 234 7072 @democracy - http://linkedin.com/in/netclift http://1radionews.com - My radio app On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 4:58 PM, Stefan Baack <[email protected]> wrote: > Thank you James, this is great! Never thought about filtering out home > organizations :-) > > You're right, the graph is a bit off. I think the problem is that my scraper > does not check whether a repo is forked. I had a similar problem with users > because users can be part of more than one organization of course, but I > wasn't sure how to reflect this in the graph. I decided that this is > tolerable because the colors should only give a rough sense of where an > organization located in the graph. I think a CSV file would be better for > the kind of analysis you did. Maybe I try scraping a bit more tomorrow, > GitHub doesn't like me right now :-) > > > On Thursday, November 19, 2015 at 11:26:51 PM UTC+1, James McKinney wrote: >> >> Note that there is some overcounting when counting the distinct >> organizations to which a user contributed, because the organization of some >> repositories is incorrect (e.g. alaveteli is mysociety, not Sobanukirwa). >> However, the graph has only one alaveteli, so there is no overcounting of >> repositories - as far as I can tell. >> >> On Thursday, November 19, 2015 at 5:18:13 PM UTC-5, James McKinney wrote: >>> >>> Nice! I have been curious to know who contributes the most *outside* >>> their home organizations. rgrp is indeed prolific, but 115 of his 133 >>> repositories are within the okfn organization. If we remove people’s home >>> organizations, we get this list: >>> >>> 47 jpmckinney >>> 22 dracos >>> 21 mhl >>> 19 zarino >>> 18 konklone >>> 17 duncanparkes >>> 16 invalid-email-address >>> 16 rgrp >>> 16 andylolz >>> 16 evdb >>> >>> I see I’m in good company! :) >>> >>> The code for this is at >>> https://gist.github.com/jpmckinney/56632f96808ef1ee326d >>> >>> The script can also print out the top organizations to which those users >>> contributed, as follows: >>> >>> 47 jpmckinney >>> 10 mysociety >>> 8 datamade >>> 6 sunlightlabs >>> 22 dracos >>> 3 datauy >>> 3 ciudadanointeligente >>> 3 openpolis >>> 21 mhl >>> 3 ciudadanointeligente >>> 3 datauy >>> 3 Sobanukirwa >>> 19 zarino >>> 2 openpolis >>> 2 openaustralia >>> 2 openstate >>> 18 konklone >>> 4 codeforamerica >>> 3 datamade >>> 2 civio >>> 17 duncanparkes >>> 2 Code4SA >>> 2 TEDICpy >>> 2 Sobanukirwa >>> 16 invalid-email-address >>> 3 ushahidi >>> 3 appsembler >>> 3 hasadna >>> 16 rgrp >>> 2 codeforamerica >>> 2 opengovfoundation >>> 2 g0v >>> 16 andylolz >>> 3 everypolitician >>> 2 g0v >>> 2 datauy >>> 16 evdb >>> 3 ciudadanointeligente >>> 2 Sobanukirwa >>> 2 openstate >>> >>> If you instead look for the number of organizations to which users >>> contributed outside their home organization(s) (regardless of the number of >>> repositories contributed to within those organizations), the list is a >>> little different: >>> >>> 17 jpmckinney >>> 13 rgrp >>> 13 pudo >>> 13 zarino >>> 12 duncanparkes >>> 12 nickstenning >>> 12 dracos >>> 12 mhl >>> 11 andylolz >>> 10 henare >>> >>> Thanks for getting this data together! >>> >>> James >>> >>> > On Nov 19, 2015, at 3:19 PM, Stefan Baack <[email protected]> wrote: >>> > >>> > Hi everyone, >>> > >>> > I’m a PhD student from the Netherlands and I’m currently working on a >>> > research project about civic hacking at mySociety. In connection with this >>> > research, I started a little experiment: scraping information about civic >>> > tech organizations on GitHub to get a grasp of the global community. >>> > After I >>> > posted a first draft on mySociety's community mailing list I got a lot of >>> > feedback and help to compile a bigger, more complete dataset. As a result, >>> > here is an update version of the article: >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > http://sbaack.com/2015/11/19/scraping-the-global-civic-tech-community-on-github-part-2.html >>> > >>> > I hope it's interesting for you and I would love to hear your thoughts >>> > about this :-) >>> > Best, >>> > Stefan >>> > >>> > >>> > -- >>> > Poplus.org - Get involved: http://poplus.org/get-involved >>> > IRC: #poplus https://webchat.freenode.net >>> > Docs: http://bit.ly/poplusdrive >>> > --- >>> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> > Groups "Poplus - Collaborative Civic Coding" group. >>> > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> > an email to [email protected]. >>> > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>> > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/poplus. >>> > To view this discussion on the web, visit >>> > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/poplus/3e3eb88d-5278-4063-9916-342ecaacccc8%40googlegroups.com. >>> > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> > -- > Poplus.org - Get involved: http://poplus.org/get-involved > IRC: #poplus https://webchat.freenode.net > Docs: http://bit.ly/poplusdrive > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Poplus - Collaborative Civic Coding" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/poplus. > To view this discussion on the web, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/poplus/7e6ff44b-56e4-45b4-ba00-4afa23b24f35%40googlegroups.com. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. _______________________________________________ okfn-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss Unsubscribe: https://lists.okfn.org/mailman/options/okfn-discuss
