Fun fact: open source projects that host their own repos are categorically not awesome.
In the top 9 most awesome Open Source projects in the world 6 out of 9 are ruby projects. Linux or Apache projects are not in the lists. Yep, seems about right... (I am sarcastic of course)
Plus, but it may only be me, rating open source projects by "awesomeness" is a gross misunderstanding of the nature of Open Source and the contribution that everybody can bring into this world.
Why did you pick the top 9?
The natural sample would have been all 10 items in the top 10. Cutting it off at the rather weird 9, especially considering that the 10th is not a ruby item, gives the appearance that he massaged the data to support his position.
I understand what you're trying to do, but I think this (and similar efforts) are a net negative. Sorry.
In addition, we actively track projects from forges like Github, Bitbucket, Apache, Java.net, Google Code, etc.