README for http://flossdata.syr.edu/data directory 

What is this place?
This is a repository of flat files or data "dumps", from the FLOSSmole project.

What is FLOSSmole? 
Since 2004, FLOSSmole aims to:

    --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: Several terabytes (TB) of data covering the period 2004-now, and 
growing with data sets from nearly 10,000 web-based collection operations, and growing 
each month. This includes data for millions of open source projects and their developers.

If you use FLOSSmole data, please cite it accordingly:
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.

What is included on this site? 
Flat files, date and time-stamped, from various software forges & projects

We have a lot of other data in our database that is not available here in flat files. 
For example, IRC logs and email from various projects. For those, see the following:
 
1. Direct database access. Please use this link 
for direct access to our MySQL database: 
http://flossmole.org/content/direct-db-access-flossmole-collection-available

2. FLOSSmole web site. Includes updates, visualizations, and examples. 
http://flossmole.org/

Here are the forges/data sources that we have flat files for: 
al: Alioth
apache: Apache Software Foundation
deb: Debian
fc: Freecode
fsf: Free Software Foundation
gc: Google Code
gh: Github
irc: irc log data
lpd: Launchpad
ow: Objectweb
rf: Rubyforge
sf: Sourceforge
sk: SourceKibitzer
sv: Savannah
tig: Tigris
udd: Ultimate Debian Database