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0. Intro
1. Open Source Growth
2. March Project of the Month: Mailman
3. SF.net Enhancements
4. Be a SF.net download mirror
5. Stats and Top Projects


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Dear SourceForge.net Developer,

As you may have noticed during the past two months, the SF.net team 
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These images help convey which projects and users are accepting 
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http://sourceforge.net/top/mostactive.php?type=week

The green gear icons represent projects that are accepting financial 
contributions.  Users who donate money to these projects receive a gear 
icon next to their name, signifying that they have given to the Open Source 
project.  An example is here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/popfile/
Note the gears next to the user's name.  These users have contributed 
to the project 'POPFile'.   A full legend of icons and their associated 
colors can be viewed here: http://tinyurl.com/34ba5

On a related note, SourceForge.net is now accepting both credit cards
and PayPal as payment options.  The SF.net team has received a number of 
emails from users who have requested alternatives to PayPal.   Credit 
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purchase of annual SF.net subscriptions.  Note: It's not yet possible 
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a project or user.

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Patrick McGovern
Director, SourceForge.net
pat AT sf.net



Open Source Growth
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Open Source software, a phrase coined only 6 years age, has gained 
tremendous mind-share within the general public in just the past 18 
months.   Open any major newspaper or business magazine and you will 
see articles about what Open Source is and how it is being used    
Since SourceForge.net is a microcosm of the Open Source community,  
it's growth likely mirrors the growth of the movement itself.  (note: 
I'm including the free software movement, which of course is older then 
6 years...)

Alexa, a website now owned and operated by Amazon,  keeps track of the 
traffic generated by the top 100,000 websites in the world.      
According to Alexa, SourceForge.net is now ranked #258 (out of 100,000) 
in the world in terms of sheer traffic.  To put this fact in some 
perspective, during the past 12 months, SourceForge.net has surpassed 
IBM.com, Sun.com, and Cnet.com in daily pageviews.

A graph from Alexa can be viewed here:  
http://SourceForge.net/traffic.php . The blue line, representing 
SourceForge.net, is the one to focus on.  This graph is charting 
relative traffic growth oppose to absolute numbers, meaning that while 
all the sites are growing, SF.net is growing at a faster pace than it's 
peers.  This report reinforces what we already know, that the Open 
Source movement is indeed growing at a tremendous pace and is making 
inroads in all aspects of software development/deployment.   It will be 
intriguing to see how the graph changes in the months and years to 
come.


March Project of the Month: Mailman
---------------------------------------------
Collaboration on the Internet has a single 'killer app', the mailing 
list. SourceForge.net itself hosts over 35,000 mailing lists that allow 
people to communicate via email all around the world. How does SF.net 
manage all the lists, email subscriptions, passwords, setup, etc? We 
use GNU Mailman, a powerful Open Source application sporting an 
elegant web-based frontend that makes managing any number of lists 
(from three to tens-of-thousands) a breeze. GNU Mailman has been with 
SF.net since the very beginning. As of March 2004, SF.net now has over 
75,000 projects; Mailman was registered when the site had just 102. The 
SF.net team is proud to make GNU Mailman the March 2004 SourceForge.net 
Project of the Month. We couldn't run the site without it.

Project of the month: http://sourceforge.net/potm/potm-2004-03.php
Project page: https://sourceforge.net/projects/mailman/
Homepage: http://mailman.sourceforge.net/

(BTW: April's Project of the month is BZFlag.  More info in the next 
newsletter.)


SF.net enhancements
---------------------------------------------
If you have interest in the latest info and new features on 
SourceForge.net, there is no better place to look than the SF.net 
enhancement page.  It is updated regularly and contains useful 
information about what the SF.net team is working on.
http://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=19242&group_id=1



Be a SF.net download mirror
---------------------------------------------
SourceForge.net is looking to add approximately five additional mirrors 
to our global download network.  If you have a *lot* of bandwidth 
(enough to provide the mirror a minimum of 40Mbps) and approximately a 
terabyte of available disk space, we'd like to hear from you.   Besides 
helping SourceForge.net and the Open Source community, your 
organization will be listed on SF.net's download page, which is 
accessed approximately 1,500,000 times per day.  If you have interest, 
please email pat AT sf.net.  Set the email subject to 'bandwidth'. Please 
include information about your company/organization and your bandwidth 
in the email.  Thank you.



Stats and Top Projects.
---------------------------------------------
Number of Projects: 78,337
Number of Registered Users: 819,753

Daily Stats for March 25th, 2004

SF.net : 2,272,90 pages served
SF.net project web space : 7,457,197 pages served
Total Pages: 9,730,106


Open Source Files downloaded in 24 period: 843,269
        
Outgoing Mailing list emails: 1,426,844



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Top 25 Projects:

1. Gaim
https://sourceforge.net/projects/gaim
Gaim is a GTK2-based instant messenger application. It supports 
multiple protocols via modules, including AIM, ICQ, Yahoo!, MSN, 
Jabber, IRC, Napster, Gadu-Gadu and Zephyr. It has many common features 
found in other clients, as well as many unique features.

2. Azureus - BitTorrent Client
https://sourceforge.net/projects/azureus
A Java Based BitTorrent Client.

3. guliverkli
https://sourceforge.net/projects/guliverkli
Home of VobSub, Media Player Classic (MPC) and other misc utils.

4. 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.

5. eGroupWare: Enterprise Collaboration
https://sourceforge.net/projects/egroupware
eGroupWare is a multi-user, web-based groupware suite developed on 
a custom set of PHP-based APIs.Currently available modules include: 
email, addressbook, calendar, infolog (notes, to-do's, phone calls), 
content management, forum, bookmarks, wiki

6. dotproject
https://sourceforge.net/projects/dotproject
PHP web-based project management framework that includes modules for 
companies, projects, tasks (with Gantt charts), forums, files, 
calendar, contacts, tickets/helpdesk, multi-language support, 
user/module permissions and themes

7. POPFile - Automatic Email Classification
https://sourceforge.net/projects/popfile
POPFile is an email classification tool with a Naive Bayes classifier, 
a POP3 proxy and a web interface.It runs on most platforms and with 
most email clients.

8. WebCalendar
https://sourceforge.net/projects/webcalendar
WebCalendar is a PHP application used to maintain a calendar for a 
single user or an intranet group of users. It can also be configured as 
an event calendar.

9. Group-Office
https://sourceforge.net/projects/group-office
Group-Office is a powerful modular Intranet application framework.It 
runs *nix using PHP and MySQL

10. WinMerge
https://sourceforge.net/projects/winmerge
A visual text file differencing and merging tool for Win32 platforms. 
Useful for determining what has changed between project versions, and 
then merging changes between versions

11. FileZilla
https://sourceforge.net/projects/filezilla
FileZilla is a fast FTP client for Windows with a lot of 
features. FileZilla Server is a reliable FTP server.

12. Compiere ERP + CRM Business Solution
https://sourceforge.net/projects/compiere
Smart ERP+CRM solution for Small-Medium Enterprises in the global 
marketplace covering all areas from customer management, supply chain 
and accounting. For $2-200M revenue companies looking for "brick and 
click" first tier functionality.

13. ScummVM
https://sourceforge.net/projects/scummvm
ScummVM is a cross-platform interpreter for several point-and-click 
adventure engines. This includes all SCUMM-based adventures by 
LucasArts, Simon the Sorcerer by AdventureSoft, and Beneath a Steel Sky 
and Broken Sword 2 by Revolution

14. phpWebSite Content Management System
https://sourceforge.net/projects/phpwebsite
Developed by the Web Technology Group at Appalachian State University, 
phpWebSite provides a complete web site content management system.All 
client output is XHTML 1.0 and meets the W3C's Web Accessibility 
Initiative requirements.

15. GanttProject
https://sourceforge.net/projects/ganttproject
Ganttproject lets you plan projects using a Gantt chart. It is written 
in Java. GanttProject use a XML file format. It can export the project 
in HTML Web pages or PDF document (using XSLT) or image files. It 
support 21 languages.

16. XNap - A P2P framework and client
https://sourceforge.net/projects/xnap
XNap is a Java plugin-based peer-to-peer (P2P) framework and client 
including an OpenNap plugin with multiple server support, as well as 
Gnutella, giFT (OpenFT), IRC, ICQ and an OverNet plugin. XNap provides 
resuming, chat, hotlist and a media library.

17. phpGedView
https://sourceforge.net/projects/phpgedview
The phpGedView project parses GEDCOM 5.5 genealogy files and displays 
them on the internet in a format similar to PAF.All it requires to run 
is a php enabled web server and a gedcom file.It is easily customizable 
for use on many different web sites.

18. Dev-C++
https://sourceforge.net/projects/dev-cpp
Dev-C++ is an full-featured Integrated Development Environment (IDE) 
for Win32. It uses GCC, Mingw or Cygwin as compiler and libraries set.

19. Tiki CMS/Groupware
https://sourceforge.net/projects/tikiwiki
Tiki is a powerful CMS/Groupware. Features: article, forum, newsletter, 
blog, file/image gallery, wiki, drawing, tracker, directory, 
poll/survey & quiz, FAQ, chat, banner, webmail, calendar, category, 
ACL, etc in Single Sign-on or LDAP.(PHP/MySQL/Smarty)

20. 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.

21. Gallery
https://sourceforge.net/projects/gallery
A slick, intuitive web based photo gallery with authenticated users and 
privileged albums.Easy to install, configure and use.Photo management 
includes automatic thumbnails, resizing, rotation, etc.User privileges 
make this great for communities.

22. PDFCreator
https://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator
PDFCreator is the easy way of creating PDFs out of common software Like 
Word, StarCalc oder every other Windows Application that uses the 
Windows Printers.

23. AMSN
https://sourceforge.net/projects/amsn
AMSN (Alvaro\\'s Messenger) is a MSN messenger clone for 
linux/unix/windows/mac. It features multilanguage support, file 
transfers, new graphical interface, emoticons, multiple profiles 
support, dock icon, sound events, email notification, url processing.

24. Intel PRO/Wireless 2100 driver for Linux
https://sourceforge.net/projects/ipw2100
Intel PRO/Wireless 2100 driver for Linux (802.11b)

25. jTDS - The JDBC driver for MS SQL Server
https://sourceforge.net/projects/jtds
Open source pure Java JDBC 2.1 driver for the Microsoft SQL Server 
series (6.5, 7.0 and 2000). jTDS is the fastest JDBC driver for MSSQL 
Server and is a complete implementation of the JDBC spec. For more 
information see http://jtds.sourceforge.net/



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