SourceForge
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SourceForge is a web service founded by Tony Guntharp, Uriah Welcome, Tim Perdue, and Drew Streib in November 1999. It provides a centralized software discovery platform, including an online platform for managing and hosting open-source software projects, and a directory for comparing and reviewing B2B software that lists over 104,500 business software titles. It provides source code repository hosting, bug tracking, mirroring of downloads for load balancing, a wiki for documentation, developer and user mailing lists, user-support forums, user-written reviews and ratings, a news bulletin, micr
Key facts
- Website.name
- SourceForge
- Website.logo
- SourceForge logo transparent.svg
- Website.logo_caption
- SourceForge logo since 2018
- Website.commercial
- Yes
- Website.ipv6
- Yes
- Website.type
- Software discovery platform for free hosting for open-source software project management and B2B software review & comparison directory
- Website.registration
- Optional (required for creating and joining projects)
- Website.owner
- Slashdot Media (2019–present)BIZX, LLC (2016–2019)DHI Group, Inc. (2012–2016)Geeknet, Inc. (1999–2012)
- Website.author
- VA Software
- Website.current_status
- Online
- Website.key_people
- Logan Abbott (President)
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Encyclopedic overview
8 sectionsContents
- Concept
- Revenue model
- History
- Installer with adware
- Usage
- See also
- References
- External links
SourceForge is a web service founded by Tony Guntharp, Uriah Welcome, Tim Perdue, and Drew Streib in November 1999. It provides a centralized software discovery platform, including an online platform for managing and hosting open-source software projects, and a directory for comparing and reviewing B2B software that lists over 104,500 business software titles. It provides source code repository hosting, bug tracking, mirroring of downloads for load balancing, a wiki for documentation, developer and user mailing lists, user-support forums, user-written reviews and ratings, a news bulletin, micro-blog for publishing project updates, and other features.
SourceForge was one of the first to offer this service free of charge to open-source projects. Since 2012, the website has run on Apache Allura software. SourceForge offers free hosting and free access to tools for developers of free and open-source software.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “SourceForge” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.