Friendly Forge Format generic grant application

[dachary]

@realaravinth

Another use case that the file format could enable is running analytics on the repository activity: the entire dataset is available for download in a simple and convenient format.

This is a good point and it should be mentioned Software Heritage conducted a large gender study based on the content of repositories that was published earlier this year, IIRC. If the meta data had been available in a DVCS, they could have used it as well instead of just the commits in the code.