Why hello there! We know you're busy, so let's get right to it! This month, we restored (and improved) the project activity stats, which include metrics like number of forum posts, tracker activity, and the like. We also are happy to announce a new award: the Community Member of the Month award! Congrats go out to Daniel (nanotube) Folkinshteyn for being our first recipient. More on Daniel below. GCompris is our Project of the Month, so congrats go to them as well. Also, it's that time again for the Git folks to get your feedback. One final note, this will be my last newsletter, as I'm leaving SourceForge on October 9 to pursue other opportunities. This also means that we're looking to hire a Community Growth Hacker. Could this be you? Read more below!
Coming up, we'll be at:
- Mongo Raleigh (Raleigh, NC, September 22)
- PHPNW (Manchester, UK, October 7-9)
Hope to see you there! Do you have an event for our Calendar of Open Source Events? Let me know!
Cheers!
Elizabeth Naramore
Community Development Manager
Email: elizabethn@sourceforge.net
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- UniKey: UniKey is a very small and easy-to-use Vietnamese keyboard for Windows.
- Camstudio: CamStudio is able to record all screen and audio activity on your computer and create industry-standard AVI video files and using its built-in SWF Producer can turn those AVIs into lean, mean, bandwidth-friendly Streaming Flash videos (SWFs).
- Buildcraft: This is a mod to minecraft aimed at providing advanced building capabilities to the game, such as gears, pipes and quarries.
- VideoURLs InstanTempo Plugin: Bypass the Megavideo Time Limit, Regenerate your Megavideo broken links and search for video links.
- rEFIt: rEFIt is a boot menu and maintenance toolkit for EFI-based machines like the Intel Macs.
- Zekr: Zekr is an open source Quran study software for Windows, Linux and Mac. It's designed to ease access to the most authentic and valuable text of Muslims. Zekr provides Quran translations, recitation, search and other features to study Holy Quran.
- Frhed: Frhed is an binary file editor for Windows. It is small but has many advanced features like ability to load big files partially.
- ImperiumAO: ImperiumAO client version of ORE 1.0 RPG engine, originally created by Aaron Perkin's from BaronSoft, edition by Maraxus contributed and adapted by Barrin. ImperiumAO was originally based on Argentum-Online, based also on ORE engine.
- FTPbox: FTPbox is an open-source application that allows you to synchronize all your files to your remote host, via FTP. This way, you can access your files anywhere, without having to pay for disk space on some 3rd-party website!
We are happy to share that we've improved the UI, added custom date reporting, and generally improved stat aggregation under the hood for project activity metrics. If you want to read more about what we've been up to, check out the brief blog post.
We have so many great members of the SourceForge community, we thought it was high time we gave them the recognition they deserve. That's why we've started this award- to say thanks. Our first recipient is Daniel Folkinshteyn (nanotube) who has done many great things here, and is always ready to help fellow users. Besides our gratitude, Daniel will also get a $25 ThinkGeek Gift Card. To read more about Daniel and this award, go to our blog.
Continuing on our 2011 theme of recognizing open source projects that give back to society, we are happy to extend the September Project of the Month Award to GCompris. It is an educational suite of games for kids of all ages, and covers everything from math and science to art and literature. They make learning fun! Great job, guys. Read more about GCompris.
The Git folks have published their 2011 survey, and they'd love your feedback. It helps their community understand your needs, what you like and don't like about Git, and help them improve it overall. The survey runs until October 3. The results will be published at http://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/GitSurvey2011.
This is a key role for SourceForge.net right now. We have many great services (Support of Git/hg IRC logging, integrated tickets/forums/wiki/scm, etc) that not everybody knows about. And we need somebody to help us to listen to our users and iunderstand their needs, and then get the word our about how our services can help. Ultimately, we are looking for someone who is passionate about open source and can help us grow our active user base, and create more of a "community" atmosphere around SourceForge.net. As Community Growth Hacker you will work with the rest of the SourceForge team to make sure we are building the products that will drive community growth, and to help the team articulate the value of each tool/service and each new release. For more info, see our full job posting.
That's all for this month.
Love,
Elizabeth and the SourceForge Team
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