Open source communities would benefit greatly from a structured approach to identifying, anaylsing and sharing skills present and required in open source projects. Such features would empower all stakeholders of open source communities: project leaders, developers, users, and community managers.

Projects would be able to gain better insights into the present and required skills in their projects based on available data, compare themselves with similar projects and improve the process of finding the right developer profiles. Developers and users would benefit greatly from understanding the required skills to use or contribute to a project, identity skills gaps and develop according training and upskilling plans.

For open source foundations or community managers it would become an added value to offer to their members and to gain deeper and structured insights into the present skills and needs of their communities.