[colund]

Sounds like a good idea for a better unofficial open source search engine. I would be interested in contributing. It could do intelligent search of Github, Bitbucket etc for projects which might be interesting (programming languages, objectives etc).

[sitkack]

You could crawl github and bitbucket, make a public dataset available. Others could slice and dice.

[gedrap]

I think this is a great idea.

Having access to the data set itself could unlock a lot of new, creative ideas and applications beyond the expected ones. That's one great thing I've learned from the open source community.

It could not only be used for search, but some data analysis, and what not. I think it would be fairly beneficial for github to do it, actually. Easy to work with, up to date dataset -> interesting projects -> github brand value++.

[webmasterraj]

I was thinking of something maybe even simpler - a place for people to post projects they're actually interested in maintaining as open source projects. A subreddit could be the mvp.

Or go the other way, and train a searching algorithm based on a data set of actively maintained open source projects on Github, with things like commit history/contributors/etc as features.

[sitkack]

Using a subreddit, you basically have a marketing problem and no way to seed the marketplace. One would need to do both. You are trying to restart http://freecode.com/

[dreamdu5t]

How about a README badge?