No, this CIA is not the same band of folks tracking down people in the middle east. CIA for Open Source is a tracking system for OSS projects.

CIA is a system for tracking open-source projects in real-time. People all over the world are constantly collaborating and creating software, creating a constant flow of new code and new ideas. CIA provides an easy way for people to observe this flow. Developers can see the latest changes to their code immediately, users can subscribe to see the latest bugfixes in their favorite programs. Everyone can take a chance to step back and look at open source development as a whole.

The end result of CIA can be viewed in several ways:

* The online stats browser
*RSS feeds, linked to from each stats page
* The #commits channel on the Freenode IRC network
*Your favorite project’s IRC channel, if they have requested that a CIA bot join it [Read the rest]