Hi All,
I don't know if any of you have played around with ohloh.net at all - I have; it's kinda cool. Anyway, for those that don't know, it indexes source control repositories of open source projects, so as to produce interesting metrics of the total work done on whole projects, and the contributions made by individual developers.
So inkscape has 45 developers, 793034 lines of code, which would have cost an estimated 220 person years to produce at cost $12,112,544. Cool huh?
Ohloh has a cool feature where you can put a little badge on the project home page that tells people this info: http://www.ohloh.net/projects/69/widgets
Some projects have used this just for the hell of it, others have used it as a way of encouraging people to donate e.g. wine-door.org! What do you think?
All the best Joel