From: SourceForge.net Team <noreply@...34...> To: jon@...235... Subject: SourceForge.net Update: 2006-09-08 Edition Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2006 23:59:32 -0700 (PDT) 0. Introduction 1. Sysadmin of the year 2. July Project of the Month: openQRM 3. September Project of the Month: Linux-NTFS 4. Statistics Judging from the spike in SourceForge.net traffic this week, the Northern Hemisphere is back to work. To those of you returning from summer holidays, welcome back to SourceForge.net! You will be happy to know that your counterparts in the Southern Hemisphere have been very busy. Throughout their winter, the countries of Brazil, Argentina, Australia, Peru and Chile have all been among the top twenty countries for visits to SourceForge.net. For the months of June and July, Brazil surpassed Germany to account for the second most visits to the site. Like our friends in the Southern Hemisphere, the SourceForge.net team has been busy too. We recently deployed a major version upgrade of our main site database software in conjunction with a database hardware systems upgrade. To ensure a smooth upgrade, we performed extensive testing and secured the assistance of Command Prompt, a database consulting firm (www.commandprompt.com). You may have already noticed an improvement in site performance. Once we've had a bit more time in production for tuning, we are confident that you'll notice further improvement in site performance. We also kept busy by bringing aboard additional, talented software engineers and a user interaction designer. Once these recent hires are fully up to speed, they will begin working on our comprehensive file release system redesign, which is already underway. Because we plan to improve the file release system in small iterations, you should expect to see steady progress over the next several months. Going forward, in addition to file release system improvements, we are also exploring a more flexible approach to project navigation. Even though we remain committed to revamping, extending and adding to the developer tools that we provide, we recognize that sometimes our 128,000 projects have unique needs. Project administrators will soon be able to provide their users with access to additional tools or services regardless of their hosted location. Engineering work is underway. Our summer hasn't been all work, a hiring spree and no fun. As some of you have already discovered, we also packaged up and launched the Syracuse project (http://sourceforge.net/projects/syracuse), which contains all of the source code that powers SourceForge.net's search system. If you need to index and search a lot of data, give Syracuse a try and let us know what you think! Thank you for your continued support of SourceForge.net. Jay Seirmarco General Manager, SourceForge.net jay@...156... Sysadmin of the Year (www.sysadminoftheyear.com) -------------------------------------------------------------------- Here's a way for business professionals to nominate their favorite IT administrators to be honored as Sysadmin of the Year. No purchase is necessary. Here are the Official Rules: http://www.sysadminoftheyear.com/index.php/saoty_rules Sponsoring Organizations: Splunk is the main sponsor. Co-sponsors include OSTG (SourceForge.net), Bawls (www.thinkgeek.com/bawls), the Network and Systems Professionals Association, the League of Professional System Administrators and USENIX/SAGE. The contest will end at 11:59 PM PST on October 31, 2006. Fabulous Prizes Include: One Grand Prize winner will receive a $2,500 Splunk Professional license and an all-expense paid trip to Washington, D.C. to attend the Large Installation System Administration (LISA) Conference December 3-7, 2006. A First Prize winner will receive an Apple MacBook. July Project of the Month: openQRM ------------------------------------------------------------ openQRM is the world's first open source systems management platform. Its plugin architecture manages monitoring systems and virtual servers, and automates common day-to-day tasks in enterprise data centers. Project of the month: http://sourceforge.net/potm/potm-2006-07.php Home Page: http://openqrm.org/ Project Page: https://sourceforge.net/projects/openqrm/ September Project of the Month: Linux-NTFS ------------------------------------------------------------ The goals of this project are to create a new Linux kernel driver for the NTFS file system (1.2, 3.x, and later), user space utilities (e.g. format, NTFS check, etc.), and a library to avoid code duplication and provide access to NTFS to other GPL programs. On the driver side (kernel NTFS driver, ntfsmount, ntfs-3g), the project allows users to read and write to their NTFS partitions (the public kernel driver is mostly read-only at the moment whilst ntfsmount and ntfs-3g are read-write), thus allowing people to use their Windows files under Linux. On the utilities side, it allows people to create NTFS volumes (mkntfs), resize existing volumes (ntfsresize), create copies of volumes (for backup purposes for example -- ntfsclone), and do all sorts of other things with NTFS volumes. On the library front, NTFS library (libntfs) provides API for other GPLed programs to access NTFS volumes, such as the recovery program TestDisk. Project of the month: http://sourceforge.net/potm/potm-2006-09.php Home Page: http://www.linux-ntfs.org Project Page: https://sourceforge.net/projects/linux-ntfs/ Statistics and Top Projects --------------------------- Number of Projects: 128,787 Number of Registered Users: 1,385,979 Daily Stats for 5 September, 2006: SF.net: 3,053,285 pages served Open Source Files downloaded in 24 hour period: 1,957,731 Top 25 Projects: 1. Gaim https://sourceforge.net/projects/gaim Gaim is a GTK+ instant messaging application. It supports multiple protocols, including AIM, ICQ, Yahoo!, MSN, Jabber, IRC, Napster, Gadu-Gadu, Zephyr, and SILC. It has many common features found in other clients, as well as many unique features 2. ZK - Ajax but no JavaScript https://sourceforge.net/projects/zk1 ZK is Ajax Java Web framework enabling rich UI for Web apps with no JavaScript and little programming. With event-driven feature-rich components, developing as simple as programming desktops. With markup language, designing as simple as authoring HTML. 3. Azureus https://sourceforge.net/projects/azureus Azureus is a powerful, full-featured, cross-platform bittorrent client. 4. PDFCreator https://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator PDFCreator easily creates PDFs from any Windows program.Use it like a printer in Word, StarCalc or any other Windows application. 5. Inkscape https://sourceforge.net/projects/inkscape A Linux, Windows & OSX vector graphics editor (SVG format) featuring transparency, gradients, node editing, pattern fills, PNG export, and more. Aiming for capabilities similar to Illustrator, CorelDraw, Visio, etc. 6. OpenWFE https://sourceforge.net/projects/openwfe OpenWFE is an open source java workflow engine / environment. It is a complete Business Process Management suite, with 4 components : an engine, a worklist, a webclient and an 'apre' (Automatic Participant Runtime Environment). 7. MegaMek https://sourceforge.net/projects/megamek MegaMek is a networked Java clone of BattleTech, a turn-based sci-fi boardgame for 2+ players.Fight using giant robots, tanks, and/or infantry on a hex-based map. 8. XOOPS Dynamic Web CMS https://sourceforge.net/projects/xoops XOOPS is a dynamic web content management system written in PHP for the MySQL database. Its object orientation makes it an ideal tool for developing small or large community websites, intra company and corporate portals, weblogs and much more. 9. FileZilla https://sourceforge.net/projects/filezilla FileZilla is a fast FTP and SFTP client for Windows with a lot of features.FileZilla Server is a reliable FTP server. 10. MiKTeX https://sourceforge.net/projects/miktex MiKTeX is an up-to-date implementation of TeX & Friends for Windows (all current variants). 11. jEdit https://sourceforge.net/projects/jedit jEdit is a programmer's text editor written in Java. It uses the Swing toolkit for the GUI and can be configured as a rather powerful IDE through the use of its plugin architecture. 12. aMSN https://sourceforge.net/projects/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 13. 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. 14. Openbravo ERP https://sourceforge.net/projects/openbravo Web based ERP for SMEs, built on proven MVC & MDD framework that facilitate customization & maintenance of code. Already in production, it encompasses a broad range of functionalities such as finance, supply chain, project mgmt, manufacturing & much more 15. RSSOwl | RSS / RDF / Atom Newsreader https://sourceforge.net/projects/rssowl RSSOwl is a RSS / RDF / Atom Newsreader written in Java using SWT as fast graphic library. Read News in a tabfolder, save favorites in categories, Export to PDF / RTF / HTML / OPML, ImportFeeds from OPML, perform fulltext-search, use internal browser 16. KoLmafia https://sourceforge.net/projects/kolmafia KoLmafia is a cross-platform desktop tool which interfaces with the online adventure game, Kingdom of Loathing.KoLmafia is written in Java (J2SE 1.4 compliant), with binary releases in JAR format. 17. Gallery https://sourceforge.net/projects/gallery A slick, intuitive web based photo gallery. Gallery is easy to install, configure and use. Gallery photo management includes automatic thumbnails, resizing, rotation, and more. Authenticated users and privileged albums make this great for communities. 18. PhpGedView https://sourceforge.net/projects/phpgedview PhpGedView parses GEDCOM 5.5 genealogy files and displays them on the internet in formats and charts that you are familiar with.It also allows relatives to edit their genealogy online and collaborate together on their research. 19. UFO:Alien Invasion https://sourceforge.net/projects/ufoai "UFO: Alien Invasion" is a strategy game featuring tactical combat against hostile alien forces which are about to infiltrate earth at this very moment. 20. JasperReports - Java Reporting https://sourceforge.net/projects/jasperreports JasperReports, the market leading open source reporting engine, is used for business intelligence in Web and desktop applications. This project is being moved to http://www.jasperforge.org/. Check out JasperForge.org for archived Forums and Trackers. 21. FCKeditor https://sourceforge.net/projects/fckeditor Online text editor (DHTML editor), for ASP, ASP.NET, ColdFusion, PHP, Java and JavaScript brings to the web many of the powerful features of known desktop editors like Word. It's XHTML compliant and works with Firefox, Mozilla, Netscape and IE. 22. Saxon XSLT and XQuery Processor https://sourceforge.net/projects/saxon The Saxon XSLT and XQuery processor, developed by Michael Kay 23. ODF Add-in for Microsoft Word https://sourceforge.net/projects/odf-converter Open XML Translator provides tools to build a technical bridge between the Open XML Formats and Open Document Format(ODF). As the first component of this initiative, the ODF Add-in for Microsoft Word 2007 allows to Open & Save ODF documents in Word. 24. 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. 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