Jan 29, 2013 

January 2013 Community newsletter: DOSBox is project of the month; Platform Updates; New Year’s Resolutions; Help Wanted;

Happy New Year! Here’s hoping that your 2013 is prosperous and productive, and that time for Open Source finds its way into your new year’s resolutions.

DOSBox is Project of the Month

We’re proud to announce that DOSBox is the January 2013 Project of the Month. It also has the distinction of being the first project ever to receive this honor twice, winning it in May 2009 as well.

DOSBox emulates a full x86 pc with sound and DOS. Its main use is to run old DOS games on platforms which don’t have DOS (Windows, Linux, FreeBSD and Mac OS X).

We spoke with two of the development team on IRC, and that entire interview can be seen on our blog, at http://sourceforge.net/blog/potm-201301/ and you can see all past POTM recipents at http://sf.net/potm

Please also take a moment to vote for the February project of the month, at http://sourceforge.net/blog/vote-potm-201302/ (Note: vote is now closed.)

Site Updates

We’ve had a great month for updates to the developer platform. Since the last mailing, we’ve added a number of important features, or improved existing ones. Of course, you’ll only have access to these improvements if your project is using the new Sourceforge. If you haven’t upgraded already, now’s the time. Go to https://sourceforge.net/p/upgrade and press the upgrade button to get on board.

Linking your project to your Twitter stream – http://sourceforge.net/blog/your-projects-twitter-stream/ This is the first in a series of updates the platform that will let you more easily publicize your work via Twitter and other social media channels.

Side-by-side diffs – http://sourceforge.net/blog/platform-updates-side-by-side-diffs/ We’ve added a side-by-side view to the diff tool when reviewing changes in your SCM. This makes it really easy to tell at a glance what changed and where.

SVN was upgraded to 1.7.7 – http://sourceforge.net/blog/svn-upgraded-to-1-7-7/

Menu cleanup for projects with lots of tools – http://sourceforge.net/blog/platform-update-menu-cleanup/ Projects with large numbers of code repositories, ticket trackers, or other tools can now consolidate tools of the same type into a single menu item, and thus avoid navigation menu clutter.

Ticket tracker reporting customization – http://sourceforge.net/blog/platform-update-tracker-columns Project admins can now customize what columns are shown in their ticket tracker list view, adding (or removing) several columns that were not available in this view before.

As always, we encourage you to vote on tickets in the tracker – https://sourceforge.net/p/allura/tickets/ – to influence what will be worked on next.

New Year’s Resolutions

It’s not too late to make some New Year’s resolutions, and maybe SourceForge can help you with some of them. You can update your resumé with some great templates (http://templates.openoffice.org/en/taxonomy/term/158) and Apache Open Office (https://sourceforge.net/projects/openofficeorg.mirror/), automate your home lights with MisterHouse (http://sourceforge.net/projects/misterhouse/) or rearrange your living room with SweetHome3D (https://sourceforge.net/projects/sweethome3d/).

And getting involved in an Open Source project is a great New Year’s resolution. Use TortoiseSVN (https://sourceforge.net/projects/tortoisesvn/) to ease the learning curve into participation, and check out our Help Wanted forum (https://sourceforge.net/p/forge/helpwanted/) for ideas of where you might be able to plug in.

For more ideas of using Open Source in 2013, see some of our resolutions on our blog at http://sourceforge.net/blog/new-years-resolutions/

Help Wanted

With over 300,000 projects and almost 3.5 million users, it can be a little difficult to match up a developer with a project. The Help Wanted forum (https://sourceforge.net/p/forge/helpwanted/) is one attempt to get projects in touch with developers and vice versa.

If you want to work on something, have a look to see what projects are looking for help. Or, if your project needs something, posting there should be part of your search process.

The EasyObject project is looking for people to help them with testing. EasyObjects is a PHP5 and jQuery web application framework. You can engage with the community at https://sourceforge.net/p/easyobject/discussion/testing/

The superbios project (https://sourceforge.net/projects/superbios) is looking for developers. You can respond to their posting at https://sourceforge.net/p/forge/helpwanted/programmers/thread/e664c976/

And numerous developers are looking for projects that need their particular skills. (https://sourceforge.net/p/forge/helpwanted/developers/) If your project needs help, start there, and be sure to check back often to follow up.

Top Growth Projects

Here’s the projects that have seen the fastest growth in the last month. There’s some familiar ones, and a few we haven’t seen before. Thanks to all of them for being part of the SourceForge community.

Media Player Classic – Home Cinema: Home of Media Player Classic – Home Cinema. This project is based on the original Guliverkli project, and contains additional features and bug fixes (see complete list on the project’s Website). http://sourceforge.net/projects/mpc-hc

Classic Shell: Classic Shell adds some missing features to Windows 7 and Vista like a classic start menu, toolbar for Explorer and others. http://sourceforge.net/projects/classicshell

Whited00r: A custom iOS firmware for older devices. http://sourceforge.net/projects/whited00r

Megacubo: Megacubo is a IPTV tuner application written in PHP + Winbinder. It has a catalogue of links of TV streams which are available for free in the web. At the moment it only runs on Windows (2000, XP, Vista and Seven). http://sourceforge.net/projects/megacubo-br

avidemux-mswin: Avidemux builds for Microsoft Windows http://sourceforge.net/projects/avidemux-mswin

InstagramDownloader: Instagram Downloader ( Public Accounts) http://sourceforge.net/projects/instagramdownlo

Open Broadcaster Software: Free and open source software for media streaming. http://sourceforge.net/projects/obsproject

Linux-on-android: Working to getting a range of Linux distros running on android http://sourceforge.net/projects/linuxonandroid

DVDStyler: DVDStyler is a cross-platform free DVD authoring application for the creation of professional-looking DVDs. It allows not only burning of video files on DVD that can be played on standalone DVD player, but also creation of individually designed DVD menus http://sourceforge.net/projects/dvdstyler

calibre: calibre – Ebook management http://sourceforge.net/projects/calibre

MediaPortal: Turn your PC into a very advanced MediaCenter/HTPC http://sourceforge.net/projects/mediaportal

WinDS PRO: Pack de Emuladores de Game Boy (Color) (Advance) y Nintendo DS. http://sourceforge.net/projects/windspro

UltraStar Deluxe: singing game http://sourceforge.net/projects/ultrastardx

aMSN: MSN compatible messenger application http://sourceforge.net/projects/amsn

Bodhi Linux: Bodhi is a minimalistic, enlightened, Linux desktop. http://sourceforge.net/projects/bodhilinux

StrongDC++: This project allows connecting, file sharing and chatting in Direct Connect and ADC networks. http://sourceforge.net/projects/strongdc

FreePOPs: FreePOPs is a webmail to pop3 conversion daemon. It is extensible to support other webmail using the scripting language LUA. See the homepage for supported webmails. http://sourceforge.net/projects/freepops

Lightweight Java Game Library: The Lightweight Java Game Library (LWJGL) is a solution aimed directly at professional and amateur Java programmers alike to enable commercial quality games to be written in Java. LWJGL provides developers access to high performance crossplatform libraries such as OpenGL (Open Graphics Library), OpenCL (Open Computing Language) and OpenAL (Open Audio Library) allowing for state of the art 3D games and 3D sound. Additionally LWJGL provides access to controllers such as Gamepads, Steering wheel and Joysticks. All in a simple and straight forward API. http://sourceforge.net/projects/java-game-lib

Open Nautical Charts: Open Nautical Charts produce seacharts for everybody. This charts are usable (offline) with several ship-plotters and Navigation-equipement on board. kap. KMZ WCI. Png Jpr png-cal For example with Open CPN. http://sourceforge.net/projects/opennautical

gpw: Guv’nor Portable Workspace aims to bring many of your favourite applications in a ‘portable’ format, so you can use them anytime, anywhere… directly running from a USB removable device. http://sourceforge.net/projects/gpw

In Closing …

Thanks for being part of the SourceForge community!

If you want more frequent updates than this newsletter, there’s several places where we make those updates. We’re on Twitter – http://twitter.com/sourceforge. We’re on Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/sourceforgenet. We’re on Google+ – https://plus.google.com/u/1/102470258162390195749/posts. And if you follow the opensource and software Reddits, http://www.reddit.com/r/opensource and http://www.reddit.com/r/software respectively, you’ll see the occasional post from us there, too.

And our blog – http://sf.net/blog – is where we post longer articles about our projects and our platform.

Keep hacking!

The SourceForge Community Team
communityteam@sourceforge.net

Jan 28, 2013 

Featured projects, week of January 28, 2013

  • Hattrick Organizer

    Helper Tool for online-manager Hattrick (www.hattrick.org) Please visit https://sourceforge.net/apps/phpbb/ho1/ or our CHPP forum at Hattrick for more information and support. If you have any bug reports or feature requests, feel free to open a ticket in the tracker (https://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/ho1/)

  • PNotes

    PNotes is light-weight, flexible, skinnable manager of virtual notes on your desktop. It supports multiple languages, individual note’s settings, transparency and scheduling. Absolutely portable as well – no traces in registry.

  • simutrans

    Simutrans is a transport simulation game. Planes, ships, trains, trams, trucks, busses, or monorails are at your disposal. But factories have contracts and passengers will only travel to their own destinations. Many graphic sets (paks) are available.

  • Red Eclipse

    A single-player and multi-player first-person ego-shooter, built on Cube Engine 2, which lends itself toward a balanced gameplay, completely at the control of map makers, while maintaining a general theme of agility in a variety of environments.

  • Skim PDF Reader and Note-taker for OS X

    Read and annotate scientific papers in PDF. Stop printing and start skimming. Skim requires Mac OSX 10.5 or higher.

  • KDiff3

    KDiff3 is a graphical text difference analyzer for up to 3 input files, provides character-by-character analysis and a text merge tool with integrated editor. It can also compare and merge directories. Platform-independant.

  • Gnucash

    GnuCash is a personal and small-business finance manager with a check-book like register GUI to enter and track bank accounts, stocks, income and expenses. GnuCash is designed to be simple and easy to use but still based on formal accounting principles.

  • Cube 2: Sauerbraten (game engine & FPS)

    3D game engine (more powerful redesign of the Cube engine) and FPS game

  • Pokemon Online

    I’m trying to make a pokemon online battling system (some others already exist, like pokemon supremacy, shoddy battle) in order to improve my programming skills and I also want to try a few things like making a true online RPG, that’d be fun.

Jan 24, 2013 

Github Projects Downloads are Welcome

As you might have heard few weeks ago Github has disabled their file upload feature. Of course projects hosted on Github can still serve source code downloads, but they can no longer upload files that are separate from versioned files.

Since Github is deprecating the Downloads tab, Github recommends few options to projects that need to host binary files. We are happy to see our name among those suggestions, and we thank Github for the mention.

SourceForge as a trusted partner for open source welcomes you to distribute your releases via SourceForge even if your code is developed elsewhere. By distributing your releases at SourceForge, you’ll get the following advantages.

Free Unlimited Bandwidth

Reduce overhead and provide a better experience by using the largest free managed global mirror network. We serve 4.8 million downloads per day, and we move over 2 PB data monthly.

Analytics

Follow the trends that enable you to create better software. Learn more about where your project is popular, and what operating system your users use.

Premier Visibility

Reach more users and gain market share in the open source landscape. 41.8 Million unique visitors come to us every month, your chance to improve your project outreach.

A Trusted Name in Open Source

Since 1999, thousands of projects have chosen SourceForge to host not just their source code, but also their project communities. You’ll be in great company.

Get Started

If you want to provide downloads for your Github project, you’ll need to follow these steps:

1) If you don’t already have one, create a SourceForge account.

2) Create a project. You’ll want to uncheck the Git tool, since you’ve already got that, but you can add whatever tools you don’t already have elsewhere.

3) On your new project page, click the Files link and upload your release.

4) Link to your files page from your Github wiki, so that folks know where to go to get releases.

Feel free to contact us if you have any new release in the pipe, we are here to help you through our blog and our newsletter. Drop us an email at communityteam@sourceforge.net

Jan 23, 2013 

Platform Updates: Move tickets

Today’s push implemented feature request ticket 16, giving the ability to move a ticket from one tracker to another. This is very useful if you have multiple trackers on one project, or have several related projects.

To move a ticket, click the Move link at the top right of your ticket view.

This will give you a select list of your other projects and their trackers,

which will result in your ticket now being in the other tracker.

You can follow other changes to the platform both on the blog and by following the milestones in the platform’s tracker, where you can cote for tickets you’d like to see implemented.

Jan 21, 2013 

Featured projects, January 21, 2013

  • SuperTuxKart

    SuperTuxKart is a kart racing game featuring Tux and friends. It is a fun-racer game, focusing on fun and ease of play.

  • aMSN

    A very nice MSN compatible messenger application, aMSN Messenger is a multiplatform MSN messenger clone. Works pretty much like its Windows based counterpart. Perfect for keeping in touch with those friends who have not yet seen the light. Works on linux

  • PostBooks ERP, accounting, CRM by xTuple

    Free open source ERP, accounting, CRM package for small to midsized businesses. Runs on Linux, Mac, and Windows (built with open source Qt framework). Business logic resides in PostgreSQL database. Rich API for connecting to third-party apps.

  • SamyGO

    This project created for research on Samsung TV Firmware Hacking

  • gpw

    Guv’nor Portable Workspace aims to bring many of your favourite applications in a ‘portable’ format, so you can use them anytime, anywhere… directly running from a USB removable device.

  • Bodhi Linux

    Bodhi is a minimalistic, enlightened, Linux desktop.

  • PokerTH

    PokerTH is a poker game written in C++/Qt. You can play the popular Texas Hold’em poker variant against up to nine computer-opponents or play internet games with people all over the world. This poker engine is available for Linux, Windows and Mac

  • Network Spoofer

    Network Spoofer lets you change websites on other people’s computers from an Android phone. After downloading simply log onto a Wifi network, choose a spoof to use and press start. Please note that there is no intention for Network Spoofer to include any malicious features. This application is a fun demonstration of how vulnerable home networks are to simple attacks, with permission of the network owner – DO NOT attempt to use Network Spoofer on any corporate or other non-residential networks (eg. at school, university). It becomes very obvious when Network Spoofer is being used on a Network, and use of Network Spoofer will be considered malicious hacking by network administrators. Available on the Android Market.

  • Lightweight Java Game Library

    The Lightweight Java Game Library (LWJGL) is a solution aimed directly at professional and amateur Java programmers alike to enable commercial quality games to be written in Java. LWJGL provides developers access to high performance crossplatform libraries such as OpenGL (Open Graphics Library), OpenCL (Open Computing Language) and OpenAL (Open Audio Library) allowing for state of the art 3D games and 3D sound. Additionally LWJGL provides access to controllers such as Gamepads, Steering wheel and Joysticks. All in a simple and straight forward API. LWJGL is available under a BSD license, which means it’s open source and freely available at no charge.

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