I am a professor of Computing Sciences at Elon University (NC, USA). I teach mostly database systems, web development, data mining, and data science courses. My first language was Perl, but I am learning to love Python. Some colleagues and I started the FLOSSmole project in 2004 as a way to collect data and analyses about free, libre, and open source software (FLOSS) projects. We provide lots of historical data about the way open source has grown and changed over the past decade-plus.