In order to identify new leaderships through the concepts of centrality and prestige inside software communities, complex networks study and analysis can help us understand if the collaboration activity is capable of producing knowledge inside the community. This article proposes the usage of a mobility rate metric, calculated as the reason between the members who could actually learn through collaboration. The calculation is made by analyzing the creation of collaboration objects, and the result is exemplified applying the technique to Brazilian Public Software Portal communities’ collaboration data.
