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Contributing to open-source is not simply modifying and correcting the source code. All the acts that help open-source SW developer are contributors to open-source. Therefore, the method that open-source developer can contribute to open-source through community is classified in various ways. This includes reporting of errors, writing of comments, and participating in documentation. Those who give helps to open-source are called ‘Contributor’, and those who are authorized for modifying and adjusting the source cord are called ‘Committer’. In popular projects, 2~3 years of working is required to become a contributor. This experience in open-source community gives much help in accumulating the career of developer. However, in case of open-source community, it‘s hard to find if developers like a contributor or a committer, contributed to the project because they do not grasp at a glance how much you have contributed to the project. Hence, this thesis calculated the scores in accordance with the evaluation formula of open source developers after collecting the data thereof from GitHub that was one of the open source websites. Through this course they will contribute to providing of objective data that shows career of open-source developers at a glance.