Olivier berger has contributed the following use case (http://joinup.ec.europa.eu/mailman/archives/adms_foss-wg/2012-January/000016.html )

Facilitating the setup of Institutional F.OSS contributions portals

A (public) forge may host different projects developing software, where different actors collaborate, from different institutions. In the same project, there can be different institutional partners that cooperate for a common development. Sometimes such projects will be hosted at a particular partner of these's forge, sometimes on another's, or sometimes on a public forges, which has no particular link with each partner (settling in advance any dispute on the predominent role of any of these partners).

Still, each of the participating institutions may wish to exhibit a “portal” of its contributions in F.OSS projects, alongside other information, sometimes as a “portfolio” of F.OSS contributions.

It is thus important that metadata relating to sponsors / funders / proprietors of the developed software can be managed in the case of cooperation, allowing the same project or software to appear in several institutional portals. Alternatively, the hosting forges may have the capacity to properly credit institutions participating to projects (or funding them, etc.).

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