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The Anvil Podcast: Mentoring Apache OpenOffice
Rich: I’m speaking with Ross Gardler, who is one of the mentors on the Apache OpenOffice Incubator project. If the embedded audio player below doesn’t work for you, you can download the audio in mp3 and ogg formats. You can subscribe to this, and future podcasts, in iTunes or elsewhere, at http://feeds.feedburner.com/sourceforge/podcasts, and it’s also [...]
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Featured projects, week of May 21, 2012
This week, we feature a number of projects that have been around a long time, including Fink, which won the project of the month back in November of 2002. And also Tiggit, which is only a few months old and has already generated a lot of interest. As always, we’re very proud of our SourceForge [...]
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May 2012 mailing
Every month we send out a mailing to about a million subscribers, with updates about the site, the projects, and any other newsworthy items. For those of you who missed the mailing, here’s the high points. Thanks for being part of the SourceForge community! April Project Of The Month – Luminance HDR This month’s Project [...]
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SourceForge at Tek12
I’ll be at Tek12 next week. If you’re coming to the conference, I’d love to talk with you. In particular, if you have a SourceForge project, I’d love to talk with you about it for the SourceForge blog – possibly record a podcast. I’ll also be speaking speaking at the conference. Tek is one of [...]
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Apache OpenOffice Templates – Business Cards
The Apache OpenOffice community is much larger than just OpenOffice itself. There are also thriving communities that create various add-ons to OO, such as extensions and templates. And because many of these addons are not distributed under the Apache Software License, when OO moved to the Apache Software Foundation, SourceForge offered to host some of [...]
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Featured projects, Week of May 14, 2012
This week, our featured projects are all across the spectrum. It seems that recently we’ve had at least a little commonality for a given week, but not this time. We’ve got network security tools, media tools Vistumbler Vistumbler is a wireless network scanner for Vista. WiFiDB is a database written in php to store Vistumbler [...]
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Improved permissions management UI
At SourceForge, we’re working to make administering your project a pleasant experience. I recently did some user testing around project administration in the Allura platform which powers new or upgraded projects and found some rough areas to improve. At one point I asked the user to add a new contributor to a project and discovered [...]
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Announcing SlashCloud
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Apache OpenOffice – Interview with Jürgen Schmidt
Last week I spoke briefly with Jürgen Schmidt about the Apache OpenOffice 3.4 release, and he was able to give us a little insight into what was involved in getting this release out, and what’s coming in future versions. (Official Release Announcement) SourceForge is very proud to have a small part in the this release, [...]
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Announcing Apache Open Office 3.4
SourceForge congratulates Apache OpenOffice on the release Apache OpenOffice 3.4, the first release to carry the Apache name. (Official Release Announcement) Apache OpenOffice has a number of exciting new features, but the main effort on this release has gone into replacing or rewriting any components that were not compliant with the Apache license. The video [...]
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Featured projects, week of May 7, 2012
This week’s projects span the range of media, games, and business applications, as in many weeks. We continue to be impressed at the craft and passion that goes into creating these and other free software applications. Thanks for being part of the SourceForge community! UMPlayer UMPlayer is a cross-platform multimedia player supporting many audio and [...]
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Apache OpenOffice turns to SourceForge for Distribution
SourceForge just a forge? Not quite, not anymore. SourceForge is investing time and resources to help open source projects to grow, and we do that through numerous ways. Take our recent collaboration with one of the most famous open source projects: the OpenOffice project, now incubated at the Apache Software Foundation. SourceForge helps the Apache [...]
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Vote for the June Project Of The Month
We’re already looking forward to June, and we’ll start with the lineup of projects that are on the ballot for the June POTM. These projects have been chosen from the projects that were featured over the course of April, which were, in turn, selected for the growth in activity and interest in the projects. So, [...]
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Watchpoints in Python
This post is going to be a bit more technical. I’m going to discuss an issue I ran into when trying to track down a bug in Allura, the Open Source project that powers SourceForge, and the solution I was able to use, namely watchpoints. The issue I was trying to debug was that a [...]
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Announcing SlashBI
SourceForge and our sister site, Slashdot, have long served as go-to places for developers and other IT pros looking to learn more about what’s going on in tech. We’ve noticed a recent uptick in demand for information on business intelligence, and decided to fill it with a new site called SlashBI, which will offer a [...]
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