I see that most projects that hit 100k+ downloads have the Open Source Excellence badge on their SourceForge banner. My project has Open Source Excellence available as a copyable HTML badge on the admin page, but I'm not sure how I'm supposed to add it to the banner on https://sourceforge.net/projects/shapeshiftos/. Additionally, out of the 500k projects on SourceForge, approximately how many of them have the Open Source Excellence award?
Hello,
In order for he Excellence badge to show on the project page, the project has to maintain a few thousand downloads/month.
So unfortunately its not shown on your project any more.
As for your other question, we don't have public numbers available for how many projects have received badges.
Sincerely,
SourceForge Support