1. January Project of the Month: TinyMCE
2. Project Infrastructure Service Changes
3. Hosted Apps
4. Site Documentation Migration
5. Statistics and Top Projects
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Hello, and thanks for reading our January '09 edition of the
SourceForge.net update.
Earlier this month, we deployed some refinements to our redesigned Tracker,
upon suggestion from users in the community feedback forums. Also, you may
notice a few more areas of the site with our new look-and-feel, which we
plan to continue refining on an ongoing basis. Designing a new UI is hard
work, and we appreciate everyone who has taken the time to share their
thoughts with us.
As promised, our list of hosted applications for projects is continuing to
grow! In the month of January, we launched support for Gallery, Laconica,
TaskFreak!, Trac and WordPress. At the risk of sounding like a broken
record, I'll say (again) that you should check it out! It's really cool.
Read more in the Hosted App section of this newsletter.
We're also working hard on some of the larger details (and some of the
smaller ones, too) of this year's Community Choice Awards program, and we
hope to be able to share our plans with you very soon.
Around the beginning of February, we'll be pleased to announce our February
Project of the Month, ZK -- Simply Ajax and Mobile. If you're a fan of ZK,
drop us a line at spreadtheword at sourceforge.net and tell us why!
Have a great February.
Ross Turk
Director of Community, SourceForge
== Project Infrastructure Service Changes ==
The SourceForge.net team has the service offering on a continuous
improvement cycle -- we're always looking to add useful new features and
refine the existing features to be more functional. We've made a number of
recent service changes. As we make changes in the future, we plan to post
announcements to the Site Status page at:
http://sourceforge.net/sitestatus/
Recent changes include:
* Self-service CVS repository management, allowing project teams direct
filesystem access to manage their repository contents.
Read more: http://sourceforge.net/community/forum/topic.php?id=4286
* Project web quotas eliminated.
Read more: http://apps.sourceforge.net/trac/sitedocs/wiki/Disk%20quotas
* Project MySQL databases may now be accessed over the Internet, for ease
of management.
Read more:
http://apps.sourceforge.net/trac/sitedocs/wiki/Direct%20MySQL%20access%20over%20the%20Internet
Your feedback is welcome. We're always on the lookout for better ways to
serve your needs.
== Hosted Apps ==
Last year, we announced a new service that provides a number of popular
Open Source applications on an opt-in basis. To date, more than a thousand
projects and seven-hundred developers (each using at least one application)
have opted-in for this service.
We've launched several new applications since our last sitewide mailing.
In total, the following twelve applications are now available to projects
(for project-related activity) and to OSS developers (for personal
activity):
* Trac (wiki, bug tracking, and project management)
* TaskFreak! (task management)
* WordPress (blogging)
* MediaWiki (wiki, useful for documentation)
* phpBB (forums)
* Piwik (web analytics)
* LimeSurvey (surveys)
* dotProject (project management)
* Laconica (microblogging)
* A URL shortening service
* Gallery (image gallery, useful for personal images, pictures of the
development team and for screenshots)
* MantisBT (bug tracking)
As we continue to expand this offering, we make regular announcements to
the Site Status page, at: http://sourceforge.net/sitestatus/
For additional information on our Hosted Apps offering, see:
http://apps.sourceforge.net/trac/sitedocs/wiki/Hosted%20Apps
== Site Documentation Migration ==
We've been using Trac internally for the last couple of years and have
found it to be a versatile, well-refined tool. Now that Trac is available
as part of our Hosted Apps offering, we've made the next logical step and
migrated our Site Documentation to the Trac wiki.
Wikis are a great way to store your documentation. They are easy to manage
and are well-tuned for making ongoing improvements to the content.
Since the last major rewrite of our Site Docs was done under the DocManager
tool (nothing like a wiki), we've taken this migration as an opportunity to
clean house. Over the last two weeks, our Support team has rewritten the
vast majority of our Site Documentation for better ease of use, and have
reorganized the docs to leverage the capabilities of the wiki.
The new Site Docs can be seen at:
http://apps.sourceforge.net/trac/sitedocs/wiki
We'll be refining the documentation based on your feedback, and the
feedback we receive while providing support to our users. Let us know what
you think by posting a comment at:
http://sourceforge.net/community/forum/forum.php?id=8
== January Project of the Month: TinyMCE ==
The TinyMCE project is about creating a WYSIWYG JavaScript open source
editor. It has the ability to convert HTML TEXTAREA fields or other HTML
elements to editor instances and is very easy to implement. It is included
as default in several open source CMS, such as Wordpress and Joomla.
Together with them, the downloads are up to several million since launch.
Read more: http://sourceforge.net/community/potm-200901/
== Statistics and Top Projects ==
Daily SourceForge.net Stats for 27-Jan-2009:
6,119,556 pages served
4,304,153 files downloaded
95 new projects approved
Top 25 Projects on 30-Jan-2009:
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1. ADempiere ERP Business Suite
https://sourceforge.net/projects/adempiere
ADempiere Business Suite ERP/CRM/MFG/SCM/POS done the Bazaar way in an open
and unabated fashion. Focus is on the Community that includes Subject
Matter Specialists, Implementors and End-Users. We are a community fork of
Compiere.
2. MediaInfo
https://sourceforge.net/projects/mediainfo
Get technical information and tags of a lot of multimedia files. Supported
formats : - Video : AVI/OGM/MKV/MPG/VOB/MP4/3GP/... - Audio :
MP3/OGG/MKA/MP4/AAC/...
3. Notepad++
https://sourceforge.net/projects/notepad-plus
Notepad++ is a generic source code editor (it tries to be anyway) and
Notepad replacement written in c++ with win32 API. The aim of Notepad++ is
to offer a slim and efficient binary with a totally customizable GUI.
4. Zenoss Core - Enterprise IT Monitoring
https://sourceforge.net/projects/zenoss
Zenoss Core is an enterprise network and systems management application
written in Python/Zope. Zenoss provides an integrated product for
monitoring availability, performance, events and configuration across
layers and across platforms.
5. Audacity
https://sourceforge.net/projects/audacity
A fast multi-track audio editor and recorder for Linux, BSD, Mac OS, and
Windows.Supports WAV, AIFF, Ogg, and MP3 formats.Features include envelope
editing, mixing, built-in effects and plug-ins, all with unlimited undo.
6. MindTouch Deki (wiki): Collaboration
https://sourceforge.net/projects/dekiwiki
MindTouch Deki is an enterprise collaboration, wiki and mashup platform.
Easily connect people, enterprise systems, web services, and Web 2.0
applications for business automation and superlative wiki collaboration.
7. Azureus
https://sourceforge.net/projects/azureus
Azureus: Vuze is a powerful, full-featured, cross-platform bittorrent
client and open content platform.
8. PostBooks ERP, accounting, CRM by xTuple
https://sourceforge.net/projects/postbooks
Free open source ERP, accounting, CRM package for small to midsized
businesses. ERP client runs on Linux, Mac, and Windows (built with open
source Qt framework). Business logic resides in PostgreSQL database.
International ERP, accounting, and CRM tools.
9. Openbravo ERP
https://sourceforge.net/projects/openbravo
Openbravo ERP is a Web based ERP for SME, built on proven MVC & MDD
framework that facilitate its customization. Already in production,
Openbravo ERP encompasses a broad range of functionalities such as finance,
supply chain, manufacturing & much more
10. 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.
11. FreeCol
https://sourceforge.net/projects/freecol
FreeCol is an open version of Colonization. It is a Civilization-like game
in which the player has to conquer the new world.
12. MinGW - Minimalist GNU for Windows
https://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw
MinGW: A native Windows port of the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC), with
freely distributable import libraries and header files for building native
Windows applications; includes extensions to the MSVC runtime to support
C99 functionality.
13. Mumble
https://sourceforge.net/projects/mumble
Low-latency, high-quality voice communication for gamers. Includes game
linking, so voice from other players comes from the direction of their
characters, and has echo cancellation so the sound from your loudspeakers
won't be audible to other players.
14. 7-Zip
https://sourceforge.net/projects/sevenzip
7-Zip is a file archiver with the high compression ratio. The program
supports 7z, ZIP, CAB, RAR, ARJ, LZH, CHM, GZIP, BZIP2, Z, TAR, CPIO, ISO,
MSI, WIM, NSIS, RPM and DEB formats.
15. ZK - Simply Ajax and Mobile
https://sourceforge.net/projects/zk1
ZK is Ajax Java framework without JavaScript. With direct RIA, 200+ Ajax
components and markup languages, developing Ajax/RIA as simple as desktop
apps and HTML/XUL pages. Support JSF/JSP/JavaEE/Hibernate/.., and Ajax
script in Java/Ruby/Groovy/Python/..
16. Ares Galaxy
https://sourceforge.net/projects/aresgalaxy
Filesharing-Bittorrent p2p client connected to TCP supernode/leaf network
and UDP DHT network. Ares features a built-in directshow media player, a
powerful library manager, shoutcast radio support and can be used to host
p2p Chatrooms.
17. webERP web-based ERP Accounting
https://sourceforge.net/projects/web-erp
Integrated accounting ERP system. Multi-language/currency/inventory
locations. Full double entry. SO/AR/PO/AP/GL/Bank/Sales Analysis.
BOMs/assemblies/kit-sets. Flexible pricing. Emailable pdf reports. Fast PHP
created html for any browser.
18. Hyperic HQ Enterprise Monitoring
https://sourceforge.net/projects/hyperic-hq
Enterprise monitoring and management for web apps on Linux, Mac, Unix &
Windows. Auto-discovers 70+ technologies incl. hardware, networks,
virtualization, and apps. Includes: monitoring, alerts, remote diagnostics,
and control actions from web console.
19. ffdshow tryouts
https://sourceforge.net/projects/ffdshow-tryout
ffdshow is a DirectShow filter and VFW codec for many audio and video
formats, such as DivX, Xvid and H.264. Over 70 bugs have been fixed, codecs
have been updated, and support for a few new formats has been added in the
tryouts. Vista is now supported.
20. KeePass Password Safe
https://sourceforge.net/projects/keepass
KeePass Password Safe is a free, open source, light-weight and easy-to-use
password manager for Windows. You can store your passwords in a
highly-encrypted database, which is locked with one master password or key
file.
21. OrangeHRM - Human Resource Management
https://sourceforge.net/projects/orangehrm
OrangeHRM is an Open Source Human Resource Management System that covers
Personnel Information Management, Employee Self Service, Leave, Time &
Attendance, Benefits, and Recruitment. Tags: HRM, HRMS, HCM, HRIS, EHRMS,
Human Capital Management
22. Firebird
https://sourceforge.net/projects/firebird
Firebird RDBMS offers many ANSI SQL features & runs on Linux, Windows &
several Unix platforms. Features excellent concurrency & performance &
powerful stored procedure & trigger language. WEBSITE link above right,
TRACKER http://tracker.firebirdsql.org
23. Webmin
https://sourceforge.net/projects/webadmin
A web-based system administration tool for Unix servers and services.
24. PortableApps.com: Portable Software/USB
https://sourceforge.net/projects/portableapps
PortableApps.com allows you to carry your favorite computer programs and
all of your bookmarks, settings, email and more with you on a portable
device (USB flash drive, iPod, portable hard drive, CD, etc) and use them
on any Windows computer.
25. Tcl
https://sourceforge.net/projects/tcl
Tool Command Language (Tcl) is an interpreted language and very portable
interpreter for that language. Tcl is embeddable and extensible, and has
been widely used since its creation in 1988 by John Ousterhout. See
http://www.tcl.tk/ for more info.
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