WoW did backtype read our minds ? XD just after deploying our devscore I read HN and find this :)
We have released today our DevScore at masterbranch.com based on your github repositories and other forges and also with private code at github with our webhook.
How do backtype calculate the score? we look at files, commits, projects and period of activity. Our total DevScore gives smaller numbers than backtype's.
It won't pull my data (dustin). Perhaps too much. I've had that with other tools. I've even got my work spread across several github repos (memcached, couchbase, some others).
The score's based on your use of GitHub, who follows you and your projects, as well as (this is where BackType comes in) how much they are shared on Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, Hacker News, etc.
didn't load for me; you should throw up an example screenshot of what the score looks like. have you thought about making an embeddable score widget (similar to what ohloh has) that you could put on a blog?
Since we're using BackType as well to calculate the score, it was easier to do both requests server-side. We pre-ran a long list of popular users and all of their followers, but guess we didn't reach enough people :(
