The Small Project Observatory (SPO) is a web-based visualization tool for visualizing software ecosystems.

The goal of the project is to analyze the structural and social aspects of the evolution of entire software ecosystems as opposed to single project analyzed by most of software evolution research today. We started with smalltalk projects because of the ease of use of Store, but if the results are as interesting as we expect, would like to extend the project to othe types of repositories as well.

Check out the live instalation at http://spo.inf.unisi.ch.

SPO was awarded an Innovation Award at the ESUG 2007 conference.