Open Source Software @ Syracuse - Open Source Program Office

We identified 61 faculty members and labs at Syracuse University who create and share open source software on GitHub. Across these 61 GitHub accounts, we analyzed 814 of their repositories¹. We used the PyGitHub package to access the GitHub REST API and assess coding language and license popularity. The source code for these analyses and visualizations is available on GitHub.

We assessed the most popular coding languages across the 814 repositories. Python was overwhelmingly the most popular, being the primary language of 28.5% (232) of the repositories. Jupyter Notebook is the second most popular language (and likely also represents further Python usage) at 11.2%. It appears that 16.6% (135) of the repositories are used to store website materials, with HTML and Javascript representing the next two most popular languages. Other somewhat popular coding languages include Java (46 repos), C++ (37 repos), and R (33 repos). Other minor coding languages included MATLAB (29 repos), TeX (21 repos), Groovy (11 repos), Ruby (10 repos), and Go (8 repos). Below, the pie chart on the right shows these overall proportions and the bar graph on the left shows the proportions through time, by year of repository creation.

We also assessed the popularity of these coding languages by calculating how many lines of code were written in each language, as a proportion of the total number of lines across all 814 repositories (1,868,845,875 lines²). Interestingly, this metric shakes up the popularity and Jupyter Notebook comes out on top, representing over a quarter (26.9%) of all lines of code. HTML beats out Python for the silver medal (18.5%), and Python comes in at third place (12.1%). Below, the bar graph shows the percent of total lines of code written in each language.

We extracted the license for each of the 814 repositories. Over half of the repos (63%) have no license whatsoever. When a license is included, the MIT License is the most common, being used by 12.9% of all repositories and 34.9% of repositories with licenses. Other licenses include various flavors of the General Public License, the Apache License, and the BSD 3-Clause License. Below, the pie chart on the right shows these overall proportions and the bar graph on the left shows the proportions through time, by year of repository creation.

Here is a selection of these open source projects that represents the breadth of open source software development at Syracuse University:

Name	Description	Other Links	Contact	Project Status	License
dvcurator	A Python package that automates common Dataverse Curation tasks. Developed by and for the SU Qualitative Data Repository.	Documentation: https://qualitativedatarepository.github.io/dvcurator-python/	Sebastian Karcher (skarcher@syr.edu)	In production, Active development	License not yet assigned
metrics-report	An Rmarkdown document that scrapes drupal and dataverse data to generate a usage report. Developed by and for the SU Qualitative Data Repository.		Sebastian Karcher (skarcher@syr.edu)	In production, Active development	MIT
archivr	An R package that automates the preservation of URLs to Perma.cc or the Wayback Machine. Developed by and for the sU Qualitative Data Repository.		Sebastian Karcher (skarcher@syr.edu)	In production, Maintenance only	MIT
awardFindR	An R package that scrapes and searches a variety of grant and award databases for specific keywords. These include major US federal agencies like NSF and NIH as well as private organizations like the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Results from searching each of these databases are collected and made available to users.	Documentation: https://docs.ropensci.org/awardFindR/	Sebastian Karcher (skarcher@syr.edu)	In production, Active development	MIT
Citation Style Language	The independent open source Citation Style Language (CSL) project aims to facilitate scholarly communication by automating the formatting of citations and bibliographies.	CSL: https://citationstyles.org/	Sebastian Karcher (skarcher@syr.edu)	In production, Active development	CC BY-SA 3.0
CrevProp	A Python package that implements a thermo-visco-elastic model for hydraulically driven crevasse propagation through cold ice. This model was originally created by Kristin Poinar (Poinar et al., 2017), written in MatLab.	Documentation: https://crevasse-propagation.readthedocs.io/en/latest/	Jessica Mejia (jzmejia@syr.edu)	In production, Active development	MIT
datatools	A collection of data analysis tools for post-processing raw data and getting it into workable formats in Python for further analysis.		Jessica Mejia (jzmejia@syr.edu)	In production, Active development	License not yet assigned
CryoCommunity	The open-source code for the http://cryocommunity.org website built with gridsome, vuejs, vuetify.		Jessica Mejia (jzmejia@syr.edu)	In production, Active development	License not yet assigned
BADD Labs	Blockchain And Dapp Development Labs designed for use in classroom for courses in computer science/engineering/cybersecurity/blockchains.	Documentation: https://badd-labs.github.io/	Yuzhe Tang (ytang100@syr.edu)	In production, Active development	License not yet assigned
FuSSIL Labs	Full-stack Systems programming and Security Instructional Labs designed as a platform for teachers to design educational labs and demos for the active learning of systems programming and systems security concepts.	CSE384: https://tristartom.github.io/teaching/cse384/	Yuzhe Tang (ytang100@syr.edu)	In production, Active development	License not yet assigned

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We excluded 324 repositories that GitHub listed as not having a major programming language. We assumed that these represented non-OSS repositories for data, course materials, etc.
Note, this only includes lines of code that are able to be identified (by GitHub) to a particular coding language. This does not include lines of “code” corresponding to image files, data files, etc.

Coding Language Popularity

Open Source Software Licensing

Open Source Project Catalog

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