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I’m very excited about 2012. In the two months since I started as the Community Growth Hacker at SourceForge, I don’t think I’ve stopped running the whole time, and there are even more things to do in 2012.
Let’s start with the January Project Of The Month.
The HyperSQL Database Engine is a database engine written in Java, to be used embedded in Java applications, or as a stand-alone DB to be used via JDBC. The design philosophy is to make it as self-contained as possible, not relying on any third-party libraries, so that it’s easy to drop into your project without adding a bunch of dependencies.
In a departure from how we’ve done the POTM page in the past, I had a short chat with two of the lead developers of the project, rather than just sending them a questionnaire, so the result is a less formal overview of the project and its origins, as well as a little insight into why they’re working on this. You can listen to the interview, or read the transcript, at the URL above.
Be sure to subscribe to our podcast, so you don’t miss my interviews with other projects in the months to come.
VOTE for the February Project Of The Month
In an attempt to have the selection of the Project Of The Month more accurately reflect the views of our community, we’re going to try out a new way to select the POTM. We’ll select the top candidates based on activity and growth in the preceding month, and then ask you, the SourceForge community, to select the winner via an online poll. If this seems to work out, we’ll move to this method permanently. Vote at http://twtpoll.com/7vt4lq You can see more detailed descriptions of the candidate projects below, in the Fastest Growing Projects section of this mailing, or on the SourceForge blog.
In the month of December:
November ended with 322,259 projects, and December ended with 327,423, for a total growth of 5,164 projects.
We added 42,519 new users in December, for a total of 3,472,808.
We added 42,519 new users in December, for a total of 3,472,808.
In December we started The Anvil Podcast for SourceForge projects. In the podcast, I’m interviewing developers from projects and asking them to describe what their project does, and where other people can get involved.
So far, we have six episodes on the website, which you can see in the ‘podcast’ category on the blog. So far, we have:
- Programming Without Coding Technology - http://sourceforge.net/blog/podcast-programming-without-coding-technology/ - A visual programming languages framework
- Arianne - http://sourceforge.net/blog/podcast-arianne/ - A game server and game creation platform
- XOOPS - http://sourceforge.net/blog/podcast-xoops/ - A PHP-based content management system (CMS)
- Mardao - http://sourceforge.net/blog/podcast-mardao/ - A java data access object system HyperSQL Database - http://sourceforge.net/blog/potm-201201-hsqldb/ - a Java database and the January project of the month
- LEAF - http://sourceforge.net/blog/podcast-leaf/ - The Linux Embedded Appliance Framework, a tiny linux distribution for low-end hardware
You can listen to the podcasts on the SourceForge blog, or you can subscribe at http://feeds.feedburner.com/sourceforge/podcasts or in the iTunes store.
The top 25 fastest growing projects in the last month were:
Aleph One: Marathon Open Source: Aleph One is the open source continuation of Bungie's Marathon 2 FPS game engine. Aleph One plays Marathon 2, Infinity, and 3rd-party content on a wide array of platforms, with (optional) OpenGL rendering, Internet play, Lua scripting, and more. http://sourceforge.net/projects/marathon
Boost C++ Libraries: Boost provides free portable peer-reviewed C++ libraries. The emphasis is on portable libraries which work well with the C++ Standard Library. See http://www.boost.orghttp://sourceforge.net/projects/boost
Minecraft Forge: The goal of this project is to provide a compatibility layer to Minecraft mods along with advanced modding capabilities. It's aimed at being developed and maintained by a community of modders. http://sourceforge.net/projects/minecraftforge
Waterfox: Waterfox is a high performance browser based on the Mozilla Firefox source code. Made specifically for 64-Bit systems, Waterfox has one thing in mind: speed. http://sourceforge.net/projects/waterfoxproj
Ultimate Edition: Ultimate Edition Linux, previously "Ubuntu Ultimate Edition". We cater to a large base of *nix users including, but certainly not limited to gamers & low resource computers. We have a Ultimate Edition for virtually any user. http://sourceforge.net/projects/ultimateedition
MKVExtractGUI-2: Matroska (mkv) track extraction windows GUI tool for work with mkvtoolnix. http://sourceforge.net/projects/mkvextractgui-2
Open Nautical Charts: Open Nautical Charts produce seacharts for everybody. This charts are usable (offline) with several ship-plotters and Navigation-equipment on board. kap. KMZ WCI. Png Jpr png-cal For example with Open CPN. http://sourceforge.net/projects/opennautical
jKiwi: jKiwi is a easy to use virtual makeover and hair styler application mainly for the Linux desktop. The aim of the project is to instantly find out how you would look in hundreds of haircuts, try different lip colors or eye contact lenses and shadows. http://sourceforge.net/projects/jkiwi
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 http://sourceforge.net/projects/pokerth
TurnKey Linux: TurnKey Linux is an Open Source project that aims to develop high-quality software appliances that are easy to deploy, easy to use and free. In a nutshell, we believe everything that can be easy, should be easy! http://www.turnkeylinux.org/http://sourceforge.net/projects/turnkeylinux
PhotoFilmStrip: PhotoFilmStrip creates movies out of your pictures in just 3 steps. First select your photos, customize the motion path and render the video. There are several output possibilities for VCD, SVCD, DVD up to FULL-HD. Creates animated slideshows. http://sourceforge.net/projects/photostoryx
Ext2Read: Ext2Read is an explorer like utility to explore ext2/ext3/ext4 files on Windows. It now supports LVM2 and EXT4 extents. It can be used to view and copy files and folders. It can recursively copy entire folders. It can also be used to view and copy disk and file http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2read
SamyGO: This project created for research on Samsung TV Firmware Hacking http://sourceforge.net/projects/samygo
schoolsplay: Schoolsplay is a collection of educational activities for children http://sourceforge.net/projects/schoolsplay
winPenPack: Portable Software Collection: winPenPack is a free project having as main objective research and development of portable software. All applications are optimized for use on a portable device (USB pen drive, portable Hard Drive, etc.) and do not require installation. http://sourceforge.net/projects/winpenpack
Redo Backup and Recovery: Easy rescue system with GUI tools for full system backup, bare metal recovery, partition editing, recovering deleted files, data protection, web browsing, and more. Uses partclone (like Clonezilla) with a UI like Ghost or Acronis. Runs from CD/USB. http://sourceforge.net/projects/redobackup
PeerGuardian: PeerGuardian helps protect your privacy by blocking many ranges of aggressive IPs while you use P2P. http://sourceforge.net/projects/peerguardian
Freeciv: Freeciv is a free turn-based multiplayer strategy game, in which each player becomes the leader of a civilization, fighting to obtain the ultimate goal: to become (or subvert) the greatest civilization. http://sourceforge.net/projects/freeciv
Album Art Downloader: The Album Art Downloader is a program designed to make life easier for anyone who wishes to find and update their album art for their music collection. The sources for the pictures can be defined by creating plugin scripts. http://sourceforge.net/projects/album-art
ettercap: Ettercap is a multipurpose sniffer/interceptor/logger for switched LAN.
It supports active and passive dissection of many protocols (even ciphered ones) and includes many feature for network and host analysis. http://sourceforge.net/projects/ettercap
It supports active and passive dissection of many protocols (even ciphered ones) and includes many feature for network and host analysis. http://sourceforge.net/projects/ettercap
GeoServer: GeoServer is an open source software server written in Java that allows users to share and edit geospatial data. Designed for interoperability, it publishes data from any major spatial data source using open standards: WMS, WFS, WCS, WPS and REST http://sourceforge.net/projects/geoserver
SimPE: The simple DBPF-Package Editor: SimPE is a Tool for editing nearly all aspects of Sims 2, starting from simple Character changes (Skills, Names, Relationships ...) up to the creation of new Objects and Color Options, containing Wrappers and Editor for nearly all Sims 2 Filetypes. http://sourceforge.net/projects/simpe
Server Benchmark: Server benchmark and burn in software. http://sourceforge.net/projects/serverbenchmark
PeaZip: Free cross-platform file archiver, over 130 archive formats supported http://sourceforge.net/projects/peazip
Secret Maryo Chronicles: A Jump and Run game like Super Mario World with an advanced Editor and highly detailed Graphics based on SDL with a OpenGL accelerated Graphics Renderer developed in C++. Runs under Linux, Windows and Mac and can be easily ported to other platforms. http://sourceforge.net/projects/smclone
MantisBT: Mantis is an easily deployable, web based bugtracker to aid product bug tracking. It requires PHP, MySQL and a web server. It is simpler than Bugzilla and easily editable. Check out the online Demo. http://sourceforge.net/projects/mantisbt
I’ve been retweeting news items about releases that you post to the news section of your projects. I dig through the list of your news items every day looking for releases. There are several ways that you could make my job easier for me, and at the same time make your news items more useful both to your project and to third-party news sites that wish to republish them.
- Put the project name in the subject. That is, instead of saying “Version 2.3 released”, say “FlightICS releases version 2.3”. This makes it easier for news outlets to republish your news item.
- Put a one sentence project description in the body. (Yes, every time.) This saves a news outlet time looking up what your project is, and increases the chance that they’ll pick up the story.
- Put the URL of your news page in the body. This may seem redundant, but ensures that when the story appears somewhere else, they can still get back to your site. Provide a one-paragraph summary that is 140 characters or less. Being able to post your story on Twitter with no additional effort increases the chance that your story will spread.
In Closing …
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