Stats, the Marketplace, and a great video
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| If you’re a regular visitor to SourceForge Web site, then you’ve no doubt
| learned your way around by now. If you’re new here, however, it might seem a
| little daunting to think you have to sift through more than 175,000 projects
| to find what you need. Rich Menga of PCmech.com put together a terrific
| instructional video that shows you how to navigate around the site and find
| exactly what you need.
|
| I asked Rich what motivated him to put together this video. He told me that
| even though his audience understands the value of open source software,
| they’re not always sure exactly where to get it.
|
| “A good majority of PCMech.com’s audience has an understanding of what open
| source is but do not know where to get it specifically,” says Menga. “To me,
| SourceForge is the one-stop-shop for everything open source. It’s large, has
| the most choice, has a proper ‘business’ look with no glitz (very much
| appreciated) and, simply put, if it’s not on SourceForge it probably doesn’t
| exist. I have 100% confidence in recommending anyone to go to SourceForge
| first for anything open source.”
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http://sourceforge.net/community/stats-the-marketplace-and-a-great-video/
Yesterday:
Open source: 'World's largest software company'
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| The Standish Group found 11 per cent of all new commercial software
| requirements are satisfied by open source solutions and components. That
| figure doesn't include application service providers (ASPs) that use open
| source to service their clients.
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http://software.silicon.com/os/0,39024651,39201838,00.htm
Related:
Firms evaluate SourceForge marketplace
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| According to Rudolph, the site gets 25 million unique visitors per month and
| houses about 160,000 global open source projects.
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http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php?id=700988769&rid=-50
SourceForge adopts eBay-like sales model for open-source software
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| One question that people who don't know how open-source businesses work
| is: "How do you make money from open-source software?" SourceForge.net has a
| new answer to that question: sell services and support to customers using an
| eBay-like market.
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http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS9185296687.html
SourceForge heads from one-stop shop to Mega-market
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| Looking for an open source developer? SourceForge to launch new open source
| services marketplace
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http://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/index.php/id;881770770
The SourceForge Story
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| It was the fall of 1999 and there was a fever in the air. The dotcom frenzy
| was in full bonanza, it was gonzo, and it was going to last forever.
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http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/cnews/article.php/12035_3705731_1
Open Source Community Honors Its Best and Brightest
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| The second annual SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards build on the
| resounding community interest and success of the inaugural awards.
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http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/marketwire/0275543.htm
Sourceforge adds wiki functionality
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| SourceForge has teamed-up with Wikispaces to integrate wikis
| directly into SourceForge.net, in what is believed to be the
| most extensive deployment of wikis to the open source
| development community.
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http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?src=rss&id=1577
Cashing in on open source projects the eBay way
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| Whenever I see a press release that includes words such as monetize, world's
| largest and unique position I have to admit I get a sudden urge to reach for
| the delete key. However, on this occasion I decided to read on simple because
| it came from the direction of SourceForge.net and concerned the opportunity
| to monetize open source software. Not that I am 100% convinced that this is
| as close to the heart of the open source developer as some pundits believe.
| That said, if anyone can produce the necessary software alchemy then it has
| to be SourceForge.net, occupying as it does the lofty position of the world's
| largest web site for open source development and distribution.
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http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry1874.html
CollabNet acquires SourceForge from VA Software
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| CollabNet has acquired SourceForge Enterprise Edition (SFEE) from
| VA Software, adding to its range of collaborative software
| development tools.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/infoworld/20070425/tc_infoworld/87999
SourceForge plans to launch open-source marketplace
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| In the summer SourceForge, which with 140,000 of them is the world's
| largest hoster of open-source projects, intends to launch a
| marketplace for open-source-related services.
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http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/87530/from/rss09
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