DonsDeals Blog: In this SourceForge News Letter - Now Called Apache Allura(TM) - Apache OpenOffice Extensions and Free Pascal Are POTMs

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The great news is that on the 1st of April (no joke!) the SourceForge platform graduated at the Apache Software Foundation, and it's now called Apache Allura(TM)! We are very excited about this news and we look forward to engaging more with all developers and end-users who are interested in using, testing, and improving our beloved forge!

Apache OpenOffice: Free alternative for Office productivity tools: Apache OpenOffice - formerly known as OpenOffice.org - is an open-source office productivity software suite containing word processor, spreadsheet, presentation, graphics, formula editor, and database management applications.

The Staff Pick Project of the Month is the Apache OpenOffice Extensions project. SourceForge has re-engineered the Apache OpenOffice Extensions site to make it a better home for OpenOffice extensions. If you want to know more about the new features we have made available read them at our blog.

Apache OpenOffice.org Templates: The official catalog of Apache OpenOffice templates. You'll find templates ranging from letters and resumes to calendars and brochures. Templates can save your time, and are easy to use.

KeePass Password Safe: KeePass is a free, open source, light-weight and easy-to-use password manager for Windows, Linux, Mac OS X and mobile devices. You can store your passwords in a highly-encrypted database, which is locked with one master password or key file.

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Greetings!

The great news is that on the 1st of April (no joke!) the SourceForge platform graduated at the Apache Software Foundation, and it's now called Apache Allura(TM)! We are very excited about this news and we look forward to engaging more with all developers and end-users who are interested in using, testing, and improving our beloved forge!

Since the last newsletter, we've gone to ApacheCon to have fun and discuss possibilities with other Apache committers, and as this message goes out, we'll still be at PyCon meeting other Pythonistas and running our sprint!

This month, we'll also be honoring two projects: Free Pascal as our Community Choice chosen by a public vote, and Apache OpenOffice Extensions as our Staff Pick.

April Projects of the Month - Community Choice and Staff Pick

The Community Choice April Project of the Month is Free Pascal, an advanced open source compiler for Pascal and Object Pascal. Read our interview with the project's founder. Congratulations to the Free Pascal project on being voted as the April 2014 Community Choice POTM.

The Staff Pick Project of the Month is the Apache OpenOffice Extensions project. SourceForge has re-engineered the Apache OpenOffice Extensions site to make it a better home for OpenOffice extensions. If you want to know more about the new features we have made available read them at our blog.

Major Site News

Our site developers continue to work tirelessly to offer up new features on the site. Here's a quick summary of one of the new changes this month.

We've expanded the "include" wiki macro to import content from a Source Code Repository. This means you can keep your documentation in your repository and it'll automatically update in the wiki. See more in our blog.

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Past, Present and Future Conferences

Back in March, we attended the ninth Open Source Think Tank, where we sponsored the Community Leadership Summit. The Apache Allura project had two presentations at ApacheCon, but if you missed them, you might want to have a look at Dave Brondsema's presentation "Manage and develop your projects with Allura, the OSS forge" (PDF).

SourceForge and Allura will also be at PyCon in Montreal, April 11-16. We'll have a booth and would love to talk with anyone in attendance. You'll learn more about the Allura sprint over there and in the next newsletter.

Help Wanted

If you are looking for a project to which you may contribute some time, we have a listing of projects seeking help.

Keep in mind that projects need developers/programmers, testers, translators, artists, folks who can write documentation, and more. On the help wanted page, you'll even find folks looking for projects to which they can contribute.

Top Performing Projects

From March's newsletter to now, the following projects have continued to grow well:

cpuminer: cpuminer is a multi-threaded, highly optimized CPU miner for Litecoin, Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. Currently supported algorithms are SHA-256d and scrypt(1024, 1, 1). It supports the getwork mining protocol as well as the Stratum mining protocol, and can be used for both solo and pooled mining.

Notepad++ Plugin Manager: This project hosts the plugin list for Notepad++ Plugin Manager. Code for the plugin manager is also included.

FileZilla: FileZilla is a cross-platform graphical FTP, FTPS and SFTP client with a lot of features, supporting Windows, Linux, Mac OS X and more. FileZilla Server is a reliable FTP server for Windows.

PortableApps.com: Portable Software/USB. The world's most popular portable software solution allowing you to take your favorite software with you.

Apache OpenOffice: Free alternative for Office productivity tools: Apache OpenOffice - formerly known as OpenOffice.org - is an open-source office productivity software suite containing word processor, spreadsheet, presentation, graphics, formula editor, and database management applications.

Ubuntuzilla: Mozilla Software Installer: An APT repository hosting the Mozilla builds of the latest official releases of Firefox, Thunderbird, and Seamonkey.

Homebrew: The missing package manager for OS X.

Anti-Spam SMTP Proxy Server: The Anti-Spam SMTP Proxy (ASSP) Server project aims to create an open source platform-independent SMTP Proxy server which implements auto-whitelists, self-learning Bayesian, Greylisting, DNSBL, DNSWL, URIBL, SPF, SRS, Backscatter, Virus scanning, attachment blocking, Senderbase and multiple other filter methods.

Scrollout F1 email gateway: Designed for Linux and Windows email system administrators, Scrollout F1 is an easy to use, already adjusted email firewall (gateway) offering free anti-spam, anti-virus protection and Data Loss Prevention aiming to secure existing email servers.

Apache OpenOffice.org Extensions: The official catalog of Apache OpenOffice extensions. You'll find extensions ranging from dictionaries to tools to import PDF files and to connect with external databases. Extensions can improve your productivity, and are easy to use.

KeePass Password Safe: KeePass is a free, open source, light-weight and easy-to-use password manager for Windows, Linux, Mac OS X and mobile devices. You can store your passwords in a highly-encrypted database, which is locked with one master password or key file.

Liferay Portal: Liferay Portal is the world's leading enterprise open source portal framework, offering integrated Web publishing and content management, an enterprise service bus and service-oriented architecture, and compatibility with all major IT infrastructure.

sonar-pkg: Sonar native packages.

Apache OpenOffice.org Templates: The official catalog of Apache OpenOffice templates. You'll find templates ranging from letters and resumes to calendars and brochures. Templates can save your time, and are easy to use.

libsdl-android: Port of SDL library to Android mobile platform. There are also several games inside the repository, along with their sources and build files.

Programming Without Coding Technology: PWCT is a general-purpose visual programming tool designed for novice and expert programmers. A novice programmer can use PWCT to learn programming concepts like Data Structure, Control Structure, Programming Paradigm, etc. An expert programmer can use PWCT to develop large and/or complex software.

SQuirreL SQL Client: SQuirreL SQL Client is a graphical SQL client written in Java that will allow you to view the structure of a JDBC compliant database, browse the data in tables, issue SQL commands etc.

Win32 Disk Imager: This program is designed to write a raw disk image to a removable device or backup a removable device to a raw image file. It is very useful for embedded development, namely ARM development projects (Android, Ubuntu on ARM, etc). Anyone is free to branch and modify this program. Patches are always welcome.

Clonezilla: Clonezilla is a partition and disk imaging/cloning program similar to True Image. It saves and restores only used blocks in hard drive. Two types of Clonezilla are available, Clonezilla live and Clonezilla SE (Server Edition).

Ganglia: Ganglia is a scalable distributed monitoring system for high-performance computing systems such as clusters and Grids. It is based on a hierarchical design targeted at federations of clusters. Supports clusters up to 2000 nodes in size.

A Closing Note from SourceForge Lead Engineer Dave Brondsema...

Apache Allura graduation maybe a small step for the project, but it has the potential to be a big leap for everyone using open source. Developers using SourceForge, and everyone interested in running their own public or private project hosting is welcome to join us.

We have a few open positions in our Engineering department. These positions are for a Software Engineer and Principal Software Engineer in our San Francisco, CA offices. Extensive knowledge of open source development using Python and SQL is required. For more information, check the postings below:
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Principal Software Engineer

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