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Sujet : [okfn-discuss] A map of the global civic tech community on
GitHub - groups connected via Poplus.org network
Date : Sun, 13 Dec 2015 10:55:09 -0600
De : Steven Clift <[hidden email]>
Répondre à : Open Knowledge Foundation discussion list
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Pour : newswire <[hidden email]>, OGP Civil Society group
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Copie à : Stefan Baack <[hidden email]>

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 <[hidden email]>
Date: Sun, Dec 13, 2015 at 10:47 AM
Subject: Re: [Poplus] Scraping the global civic tech community on GitHub
To: Stefan Baack <[hidden email]>
Cc: Poplus - Collaborative Civic Coding <[hidden email]>


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
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On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 4:58 PM, Stefan Baack <[hidden email]> 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 <[hidden email]> 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
>>> >
>>> >
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Re: Fwd: [okfn-discuss] A map of the global civic tech community on GitHub - groups connected via Poplus.org network

Robin Millette
Hello Stefan,
Merci Diane,

Je travaille depuis trois mois sur un projet de scraping pour un
bottin de développeurs québécois.

Très intéressant, ça va certainement m'inspirer. Je travaille sur un
truc un peu similaire:
http://geo.rollodeqc.com/ (carte des langages de programmation
utilisées au Québec)

La suite (and perhaps a bit of English) plus bas.

On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 7:31 AM, Diane Mercier, Ph.D.
<[hidden email]> wrote:

> -------- Message transféré --------
> Sujet : [okfn-discuss] A map of the global civic tech community on
> GitHub - groups connected via Poplus.org network
> Date : Sun, 13 Dec 2015 10:55:09 -0600
> De : Steven Clift <[hidden email]>

> 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

I've been working for the last 3 months on a directory of Québec programmers:
http://www.rollodeqc.com/
Most of the code is on GitLab (you'll find the link on the homepage).
Currently, it stands as a bunch of little prototypes, using GitHub
data but eventually looking into OpenHub, GitLab and any git repo.

> What opportunities for greater connections and collaboration among
> orgs/code might exist?

Perhaps we should talk :-) (bcc'ed Stefan).

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Re: Fwd: [okfn-discuss] A map of the global civic tech community on GitHub - groups connected via Poplus.org network

Steven Clift

Stefan,

Something for your radar on mapping programmer/code connections.

Steve

On Dec 19, 2015 5:55 PM, "Robin Millette" <[hidden email]> wrote:
Hello Stefan,
Merci Diane,

Je travaille depuis trois mois sur un projet de scraping pour un
bottin de développeurs québécois.

Très intéressant, ça va certainement m'inspirer. Je travaille sur un
truc un peu similaire:
http://geo.rollodeqc.com/ (carte des langages de programmation
utilisées au Québec)

La suite (and perhaps a bit of English) plus bas.

On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 7:31 AM, Diane Mercier, Ph.D.
<[hidden email]> wrote:

> -------- Message transféré --------
> Sujet : [okfn-discuss] A map of the global civic tech community on
> GitHub - groups connected via Poplus.org network
> Date : Sun, 13 Dec 2015 10:55:09 -0600
> De : Steven Clift <[hidden email]>

> 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

I've been working for the last 3 months on a directory of Québec programmers:
http://www.rollodeqc.com/
Most of the code is on GitLab (you'll find the link on the homepage).
Currently, it stands as a bunch of little prototypes, using GitHub
data but eventually looking into OpenHub, GitLab and any git repo.

> What opportunities for greater connections and collaboration among
> orgs/code might exist?

Perhaps we should talk :-) (bcc'ed Stefan).

--
Robin
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