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0. Intro
1. Cloudscape Challenge
2. December Project of the Month (POTM): TortoiseCVS
3. January Project of the Month (POTM): RSSOwl
4. SF.net Site Improvements, Project Web Changes
5. SourceForge.net Subscriptions - Free T-shirt
6. Stats and Top Projects
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Dear SourceForge.net User,
I just returned from an enjoyable Open Source conference in Hawaii
called Trans-Pacific Open Source Software Conference (TPOSSCON), hosted
by the Hawai`i Open Source Education Foundation (HOSEF:
http://www.hosef.org ). Speakers included: Jon 'Maddog' Hall, Bruce
Perens, Larry Rosen, and our very own Robin Miller, the editor-in-chief
of OSTG, among others. The talks were enlightening, the setting was
beautiful (Waikiki) and the conference was very professional,
particularly for a first show (Good work Scott Belford). If you are
looking to learn about Open Source in paradise, be sure to be on the
look out for TPOSSCON in Jan 2006.
Another conference, and a lot closer in terms of time, is LinuxWorld in
Boston, Massachusetts (USA). This show runs from February 14th through
17th. I'll be speaking there, as well other members of OSTG,
including Jeff 'Hemos' Bates, Rob 'CmrTaco' Malda from Slashdot.org,
and Robin Miller. It won't be as warm as Hawaii, but it will
definitely be a good show. If you do plan to attend the show, please
let me know. Always good to meet other SF.net users.
In the next sitewide, I'll discuss our millionth registered user,
a big milestone for SF.net.
If you have any questions/feedback about the site, please email me at
pat@xxxxxxx I'm traveling most of this week, so my email reply may be
slightly delayed, but I will reply.
Thank you and Happy coding.
Pat-
Patrick McGovern
Director, SourceForge.net
Pat@xxxxxx
Cloudscape Challenge
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Only a few days left to test your Java skills.. We are giving out ten
40GB iPods and 50 (count 'em) SourceForge.net T-shirts. Entries have
to be in by the end of January 2005. Cloudscape, by IBM, is a
powerful Java-based SQL database that sports a small footprint (a few
megabytes). Since it's Java based, it's cross-platform. IBM recently
open sourced the database under the name Derby. The contest is easy --
simply download the database and our special data files and answer the
question we email you (it's a simple SQL exercise). If you are able to
get the correct answer from the datafile you'll be placed in a drawing.
What are the odds? Likely pretty good. It depends on how many people
enter the contest and have the right answer. Only a few days left.
Enter now.
Note: You have to be a U.S. or Canadian (except Quebec) resident to
enter (sorry, blame our legal folks). To enter go here:
http://sourceforge.net/cloudscape_contest.php
December 2004 Project of the Month (POTM): TortoiseCVS
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CVS, the Concurrent Versions System is the dominant open-source version
control system. CVS is useful for everyone from individual developers
to large, distributed teams. The software is used extensively on
SourceForge.net and elsewhere around the web. Besides the command-line,
there are a number of front ends to CVS that make day-to-development
easier. The CVS client SF.net staff recommend for MS Windows users is
TortoiseCVS. TortoiseCVS lets users work with files directly from
Windows Explorer. Features include: graphical UI, tight integration
with SSH, and context-menu interactivity. As of (Dec 2004), TortoiseCVS
has had over 600,000 downloads and is one of the top projects on the
site. The SourceForge.net team is proud to make TortoiseCVS December
2004 project of the month.
Project of the month: http://sourceforge.net/potm/potm-2004-12.php
Home Page: http://www.tortoisecvs.org/
Project Page: https://sourceforge.net/projects/tortoisecvs/
January 2005 Project of the Month (POTM): RSSOwl
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RSS ("Really Simple Syndication") is a document specification for
publishing headlines/content to other sites and RSS-aware applications.
While available as a format for many years, RSS usage has risen
dramatically during the past 12 months. SourceForge.net's January 2005
Project of the month is RSSOwl, a RSS aggregator. It allows a user to
gather the latest headlines from their favorite news sources all in one
place for easy viewing including the New York Times, BBC,
SourceForge.net, Slashdot.org, and thousands of other sites and blogs.
RSSOwl currently runs under Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and Solaris. The
software reached a major milestone last month (Dec 2004) with a 1.0
release. With over 60,000 downloads, RSSOwl is one of SF.net's most
active projects. The SourceForge.net team is proud to make RSSOwl our
January 2005 project of the month.
Project of the month: http://sourceforge.net/potm/potm-2005-01.php
Home Page: http://www.rssowl.org/
Project Page: https://sourceforge.net/projects/rssowl/
Site Enhancements
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SourceForge.net staff are constantly working to improve the quality of
our service offering. In recent months, a number of large enhancements
have been made to the SourceForge.net site and developer services, as
documented at: https://sourceforge.net/docs/A03/
The following is only important if you manage a project. If you don't
manage a project, feel free to skip this section.
In coming weeks, SourceForge.net staff will be performing the
changes to the project shell, database and web services to improve
maintainability and the performance of our service offering. We
recognize that a number of these changes will require projects to
reconfigure their web applications and modify their web content;
we have merged all of these changes in to a single roll-out as that no
further changes should be needed any time soon.
Details regarding these changes may be found at:
https://sourceforge.net/support/tracker.php?aid=1109940
This substantial listing of changes represents the first large set of
changes made to the project web service in more than two years. While
we have previously made changes to the equipment and software load,
these functional and policy changes will significantly help to improve
the reliability and maintainability of our project web service.
Projects are encouraged to let us know directly if they have questions
or concerns regarding this implementation. Inquiries should be directed
to SourceForge.net staff via our confidential Donation Support queue at:
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=add&group_id=1&atid=596964
Pending the completion of these new limitations and service
enhancements, we will begin implementation planning for an additional
set of service enhancements, focusing on providing brand new services
related to our project shell, database and web services.
We appreciate your patience and assistance during this transition of
the project web services.
SourceForge.net Subscriptions - Free T-shirt
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Stats and Top Projects.
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Number of Projects: 94,376
Number of Registered Users: 998,041
Daily Stats for Jan 14, 2005
SF.net: 2,747,175 pages served
SF.net project Web space: 9,876,608 pages served
Total pages: 12,623,783
Open source files downloaded in 24-hour period: 1,151,463
Outgoing mailing list emails: 1,431,501
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Top 25 Projects:
1. Gaim
https://sourceforge.net/projects/gaim
Gaim is a GTK2-based instant messenger application. It supports
multiple protocols via modules, including AIM, ICQ, Yahoo!, MSN,
Jabber, IRC, Napster, Gadu-Gadu and Zephyr. It has many common features
found in other clients, as well as many unique featur
2. eGroupWare: Enterprise Collaboration
https://sourceforge.net/projects/egroupware
eGroupWare is a multi-user, web-based groupware suite developed on
acustom set of PHP-based APIs.Currently available modules include:
email, addressbook, calendar, infolog (notes, to-do's, phone calls),
content management, forum, bookmarks, wiki
3. FCKeditor
https://sourceforge.net/projects/fckeditor
This HTML editor (DHTML editor), for ASP, ASP.NET, ColdFusion, PHP and
JavaScript brings to the web many of the powerful functionalities of
known desktop editors like Word. It works with Mozilla, Netscape and
IE.
4. MinGW - Minimalist GNU for Windows
https://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw
MinGW: import libraries and header files for use with GCC to build
native Windows applications; now with added extentions to the MSVC
runtime to support C99 functionality.
5. Azureus - BitTorrent Client
https://sourceforge.net/projects/azureus
Azureus is a powerful, full-featured, cross-platform java BitTorrent
client.
6. Exponent Content Management System
https://sourceforge.net/projects/exponent
Exponent is a fully-featured, modern CMS written in PHP, that enables
non-technical people to manage and update their websites with minimal
effort.Exponent is also an attractive development platform for
traditional and non-traditional web applications.
7. 7-Zip
https://sourceforge.net/projects/sevenzip
7-Zip is a file archiver with the highest compression ratio. The
program supports 7z, ZIP, CAB, RAR, ARJ, GZIP, BZIP2, TAR, CPIO, RPM
and DEB formats. Compression ratio in the new 7z format is 30-50%
better than ratio in ZIP format.
8. phpMyAdmin
https://sourceforge.net/projects/phpmyadmin
phpMyAdmin is a tool written in PHP intended to handle the
administration of MySQL over the Web. Currently it can create and drop
databases, create/drop/alter tables, delete/edit/add fields, execute
any SQL statement, manage keys on fields.
9. openCRX - Limitless Relationship Mgmt
https://sourceforge.net/projects/opencrx
openCRX is a professional customer relationship management (CRM)
solution deployable to all major platforms built with state-of-the-art
technology. openCRX is a real enterprise-class CRM-solution,
multi-entity capable, fully scalable. Demo available.
10. WebCalendar
https://sourceforge.net/projects/webcalendar
WebCalendar is a PHP application used to maintain a calendarfor a
single user or an intranet group of users.It can also be configured as
an event calendar.
11. hipergate CRM
https://sourceforge.net/projects/hipergate
Best of breed CRM suite including: sales automation, customer service,
intranet,email marketing, content management, bug tracker, project
manager, groupware, webmail, calendar, forums, file sharing and
directory.
12. Compiere ERP + CRM Business Solution
https://sourceforge.net/projects/compiere
Smart ERP+CRM solution for Small-Medium Enterprises in the global
market covering all areas from order and customer/supplier management,
supply chain to accounting. For $5-500M revenue companies looking for
"brick and click" first tier functionality.
13. ScummVM
https://sourceforge.net/projects/scummvm
ScummVM is a cross-platform interpreter for several point-and-click
adventure engines. This includes all SCUMM-based adventures by
LucasArts, Simon the Sorcerer by AdventureSoft, and Beneath a Steel Sky
and Broken Sword 2 by Revolution
14. guliverkli
https://sourceforge.net/projects/guliverkli
Home of VobSub, Media Player Classic (MPC) and other misc utils.
15. PDFCreator
https://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator
PDFCreator easily creates PDFs from any Windows program.Use it like a
printer in Word, StarCalc or any other Windows application.
16. MegaMek
https://sourceforge.net/projects/megamek
MegaMek is a networked Java clone of BattleTech, a turn-based sci-fi
boardgame for 2+ players.Fight using giant robots, tanks, and/or
infantry on a hex-based map.
17. Dev-C++
https://sourceforge.net/projects/dev-cpp
Dev-C++ is an full-featured Integrated Development Environment (IDE)
for Win32. It uses GCC, Mingw or Cygwin as compiler and libraries set.
18. AMSN
https://sourceforge.net/projects/amsn
AMSN (Alvaro's Messenger) is a multiplatform MSN messenger clone.
19. Battletech-Online.org Battletech MUX
https://sourceforge.net/projects/btonline-btech
Battletech MUX's are a text based (w/optional 2D graphical interface)
realtime implementation of the FASA boardgame Battletech. This project
is a merge of the main opensource tree with the original closed
distribution "Exile" tree btech-online.org uses.
20. FileZilla
https://sourceforge.net/projects/filezilla
FileZilla is a fast FTP and SFTP client for Windows with a lot of
features.FileZilla Server is a reliable FTP server.
21. FreeMind
https://sourceforge.net/projects/freemind
A mind mapper, and at the same time an easy-to-operate hierarchical
editor with strong emphasis on folding. These two are not really two
different things, just two different descriptions of a single
application. Often used for knowledge and content mgmt.
22. HSQL Database Engine
https://sourceforge.net/projects/hsqldb
HSQLDB is a relational database engine written in Java, with a JDBC
driver, supporting a subset of ANSI-92 SQL.It offers a small (about
100k), fast database engine which offers both in memory and disk based
tables.This product includes Hypersonic SQL
23. Bochs x86 PC emulator
https://sourceforge.net/projects/bochs
Bochs is a portable x86 PC emulation software package that emulates
enough of the x86 CPU, related AT hardware, and BIOS to run Windows,
Linux, *BSD, Minix, and other OS's, all on your workstation.
24. MediaPortal
https://sourceforge.net/projects/mediaportal
This program opens the portal to all your media. Listen,record and
organise music, movies,radio, streams, pictures and even Pause TV!.Use
internet sources to enrich your media with albumart or songnames. Enjoy
your mediacenter or htpc as never before
25. WinMerge
https://sourceforge.net/projects/winmerge
WinMerge is a Win32 tool for visual difference display and merging, for
both files and directories. Unicode support. Flexible syntax coloring
editor. Windows Shell integration. Regexp filtering. Side-by-side line
diff and in-line word diff visualisation.
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