The to the first annual SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards. Voting
closed on March 23. Winners were announced at the Slashdot Lounge at LinuxWorld
Expo, Boston, April 5.
SourceForge.net is the world’s largest Open Source software development web
site, hosting more than 100,000 projects and over 1,000,000 registered users
with a centralized resource for managing projects, issues, communications,
and code. SourceForge.net has the largest repository of Open Source code
and applications available on the Internet, and hosts more Open Source
development products than any other site or network worldwide.
SourceForge.net provides
a wide variety of services to projects they host, and to the Open Source
community.
Open source software is a concept that I believe in and support. I have written more about it here.
In deciding between open source and proprietary management tools, an organization may have to decide whether it’s willing to forgo some niche features in exchange for a less costly tool that does 80% of what its proprietary counterpart does equally well. Large enterprises will typically pay for all the added features and functionality because they may actually use them. But the real sweet spot for open source management tools is the mid-market companies that want to manage things in a reliable way with a tool that’s reasonable to set up, configure, and maintain, without a hefty price tag. With the advancement of open source management solutions, quality is becoming just as important a differentiator as value.
One of my favorite sites.
Current best practice in graphic design for the web, kind of boiled down into an edible form.
I thought for my first post I would start with the history of the Web.
Pre-Mosaic Era
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was ascii encoded, typically
displayed in monochrome courier on a black screen.
Those were the days when the Net was only of academic interest. Each year
in september the Net was flooded by a new load of students, who were making
themselves familiar with USENET, and email (using elm and other UNIX software).
If anybody used the word site, you could be sure they meant an FTP site.
That is, a file archive.
