Ohloh.net - My Personal Dating Site?

I was searching for a bit of code relating to a new Pownce feature today and came across Ohloh.

Ohloh appears to be an online social network for open source developers. The site has personal profiles where you can list your open source projects, programming languages, and even your ‘stack‘. Hot. You can also give kudos to other members and members are ranked on their kudos points.

And here’s where the trouble starts. What do I normally do on social networking websites? I flirt. You flirt. We all flirt on these sites.

And while I went around Ohloh giving kudos to developers of open source stuff that I love, I couldn’t help thinking it was the online dating equivalent of shooting fish in a barrel.

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13 Comments

  1. MikeCa

    Posted August 29, 2007 at 6:47 pm | Permalink

    Ouch — zing

  2. Christopher Finke

    Posted August 29, 2007 at 6:54 pm | Permalink

    “Project search results for ‘chipmark’

    No matching projects found. Try another search, or try searching for people.”

    Hmmm…

  3. Ryan Kennedy

    Posted August 29, 2007 at 8:50 pm | Permalink

    I’ll let you know when I stop laughing.

    …

  4. Leah Culver

    Posted August 29, 2007 at 9:32 pm | Permalink

    Chris Finke - perhaps you should join…

  5. John Morad

    Posted August 29, 2007 at 10:42 pm | Permalink

    Open Source!!

    Errr…I hate open source…

  6. Skeeterbug

    Posted August 30, 2007 at 9:52 am | Permalink

    Interesting. In this industry though, it would seem like the guy to girl ratio would be VERY bad.

  7. Jason Allen

    Posted August 30, 2007 at 4:14 pm | Permalink

    As a person who works at Ohloh - I categorically deny any flirting going on there. We just don’t “do that sort of thing”. Ok, sure, we may adopt a “wide stance” whilst coding - but we’re not like that! The foot bumping was just accidental. Honest!

    On the other hand - I can’t really deny the demographics. Hmmm - maybe we should partner with a “sister” site - something with reverse demographics. Any suggestions?

  8. Cam

    Posted August 30, 2007 at 7:46 pm | Permalink

    Ha! Love it.

    Think I’ll skip the flirting part though coz I tend to spend more time looking for interesting people to hire.

    In that respect this just might be a gold mine.

  9. Bob Ippolito

    Posted August 31, 2007 at 2:13 am | Permalink

    Didn’t give ohloh much of a chance when the link came up in one of my feeds a while back, but it’s pretty cool. SIgned up, added a few of my projects, was a little surprised to see some of them were already there.

    I’m with Cam, ohloh sure looks like a damn good place to find potential hires. Thanks ;)

  10. Brian

    Posted August 31, 2007 at 10:56 am | Permalink

    What happened in July at ohloh? They had a massive spike in compete.

    I’m going to check out a couple of the .NET projects i haven’t seen before…and continue telling myself i’m going to document and clean up my codebase to publish as an open source project. Yeah, one of these days.

  11. andrew reed

    Posted September 2, 2007 at 5:49 pm | Permalink

    yeah we all flirt ;-)

  12. Jeremy Johnstone

    Posted September 3, 2007 at 4:25 am | Permalink

    Pretty scary when I can join and a day later have a “6″ and be in the top 30% of people on the site. I think their math must be flawed or something as there is no way I should be that high.

  13. MikeCa

    Posted September 3, 2007 at 7:01 am | Permalink

    Leah: the man is married, come on.

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