Huge News for the FOSS Community as Microsoft acquires GitHub | Check Out Akaunting, an online accounting software

From invoicing to expense tracking to accounting, Akaunting has all the tools you need to manage your money online. -- [SourceForge]( Issue #31 - June 6, 2018 [View in browser]( [Share]( [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [LinkedIn]( [Google +]( Sponsor --------------------------------------------------------------- Develop killer analytical applications [YellowFin]( The Yellowfin analytics platform provides developers with the tools to easily build stunning analytical applications. Connect and blend multiple data sources either directly, through web API’s, or build your own using our toolkit. Try Yellowfin for free to see how easily you can develop killer analytical applications for your business. [Try It Now!]( Community News --------------------------------------------------------------- Congratulations GitHub! You’ve probably already heard the news, but if you haven’t, [Microsoft agreed to acquire GitHub.]( The team at SourceForge would like to extend a big congratulations to everyone at GitHub. The value that GitHub has contributed to the open source community over the past decade is immeasurable. We have always believed that the FOSS community is best served when there’s a greater number of options for viable, trustworthy online destinations for sharing and collaborating on open source software development. We wish Microsoft and GitHub well in future years, and this huge acquisition is evidence of how globally important open source software has become. With that said, we’d like to highlight the value we believe SourceForge brings to the open source landscape. Today, SourceForge serves over 100 million software downloads per month, is visited by over a million users per day, and is home to 3.7 million registered developers. To give a little history, SourceForge was founded in 1999, and in the nearly two decades following has been serving the open source community as one of the world’s largest open source software repositories. SourceForge was most recently acquired in 2016 and the new SourceForge team has been working extremely hard to improve the SourceForge experience for both developers and end-users. The very first thing we did after acquiring SourceForge two years ago was [remove bundled installers from projects]( a move universally applauded in the developer community. Since then, further improvements have included: - [Implemented malware scans for every single project on SourceForge]( - Removed ads for developers (if you’re logged in, you’ll never see ads) - [Added HTTPS support for project website hosting and all downloads]( - [Completely redesigned SourceForge.net from the ground up]( giving it a refreshed modern look and feel that has markedly improved all aspects of user experience. - [Added multi-factor authentication]( - [Created an ad reporting tool and team to eliminate bad and/or deceptive ads]( What’s Next? This year, we’ll be announcing new features including vast improvements to our suite of developer tools. One of SourceForge’s main strengths has always been our ability to empower open source software developers to reach a huge amount of potential end-users through our powerful software distribution capabilities. We’re the first large-scale open source software repository on the Internet, and in the last two decades have seen history made with our tools several times. Paradigm-shifting technologies [like Bitcoin]( were first developed on SourceForge. Why SourceForge? We have the most robust search and discovery system of any open source repository on the web, and offer an unparalleled experience for end-users looking for software binaries they can download and install with the click of a button. We’re talking about a destination for end-users to find and download and install the software they need, similar to an App Store but for FOSS. GitHub and SourceForge are both great for developers, but for the layman, non-technical, end-user, SourceForge is much easier to find and install a project. On the developer side, we provide detailed download statistics and versatile mailing lists to project admins. We also offer developers the optional ability to display user reviews on their project page. In addition, we’ve recently improved the detail and granularity of the statistics we provide project admins with significantly. Our powerful software search and discovery tools are now much easier to use, with all project categorization types now available as filters on the left side of the Directory pages. 2018 will see us further improve on these capabilities. Regarding GitHub Another feature we’ve built is a [GitHub Importer tool]( that will import your GitHub project to SourceForge and sync your GitHub project file releases on SourceForge. You can use it as a one-time import, or it can continue to use GitHub but use our importer to keep your releases updated on SourceForge as well, so you can take advantage of the strengths of both platforms. Again, we believe the open source community is always better served when there are multiple options for open source projects to live. Again, congrats GitHub! – The SourceForge Team Community Choice Project of the Month for June --------------------------------------------------------------- For our June 2018 “Community Choice” Project of the Month, the community elected [Akaunting]( a free and online accounting software. Recently we caught up with co-founder and CEO Denis Duliçi, who shared some thoughts about the project’s history, purpose, and direction. Check out the full interview with the developers on our blog [here.]( Vote For July's Project of the Month --------------------------------------------------------------- The vote for the July 2018 Community Choice SourceForge Project of the Month is [now available,]( and will run until June 15, 2018 12:00 UTC. The candidates for SourceForge Project of the Month for July 2018 are: --------------------------------------------------------------- [Smoothwall]( [Smoothwall]( A best-of-breed Internet firewall/router [Geoserver]( [Geoserver]( An open source software server for sharing and editing geospatial data [archlabs]( [archlabs_repo]( Package repo for ArchLabs [Bodhi Linux]( [Bodhi Linux]( A minimalist, enlightened Linux distribution [Archlabs Linux]( [Archlabs Linux]( Arch based distribution focused on Openbox & lightweight WM's [waircut]( [waircut]( Wireless Air Cut is a WPS wireless, portable and free network audit software for Ms Windows [UNetbootin]( [UNetBootin]( Bootable live USB creator for Ubuntu, Fedora, and Linux distributions [LibreCAD]( [LibreCAD]( Cross-platform Open-source 2D CAD [dotos]( [dotos-2-x]( dotOS 2.x based on Android Oreo. 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The international conference is especially adapted to experienced administrators and architects. Get in touch with international OS-experts. Benefit from their comprehensive experience, learn about the current developments and gain the latest know-how for your daily practice. Have a great time sharing expertise, networking and socialising with the Open Source community! [POSSE - Professors' Open Source Software Experience]( June 18-20, 2018 POSSE is the Professors' Open Source Software Experience. POSSEs provide professional development for instructors interested in student participation in Humanitarian Free and Open Source Software (HFOSS). [Automotive Linux Summit]( June 20-22, 2018 Automotive Linux Summit connects the developer community driving the innovation in automotive Linux together with the vendors and users providing and using the code in order to drive the future of embedded devices in the automotive arena. Today in Tech --------------------------------------------------------------- On this day in 1995 the Los Angeles Times published a report on the Vatican’s efforts to put its library on the World Wide Web for the very first time. [Discover more about the Vatican's efforts here.]( Help Wanted --------------------------------------------------------------- [Searchmonkey is looking for beta testers]( If you are looking for an Open Source project to contribute your time to, or if you are someone who wants to advertise your skills, check out the [Help Wanted page]( or [Project Wanted page.]( Final Thoughts --------------------------------------------------------------- If you know someone who is not getting this mailing, encourage them to [sign up](. If you want to change your newsletter frequency to monthly, [go here](. Thanks for being part of the SourceForge community! And, if you need to get in touch directly, feel free to send us an email at CommunityTeam@sourceforge.net. 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