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SourceForge
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Savannah
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BerliOS
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freepository
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Asynchrony
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sunsite.dk
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Icculus.org
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Brief Description
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Largest and most well known, The standard, Extensive tools
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Central point for development of GNU Software
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Free Service for Open Source Developers, Part of Initative to mediate between Developers, Users and Commercial Bodies
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Offer CVS service only (through SSL)
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Host both Open and Closed Source, Market mature projects for money
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Customized hosting for demanding projects
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Small, elitist community focus mainly on Games
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Organisation
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VA Software Corporation
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Free Software Foundation
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Berlios Team - employees from FOKUS
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Run by John Minnihan
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Asynchrony.com Inc.
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Sunsite, Run entirely by volunteers, entirely sponsoredsponsor-supported by Sun Microsystems, Inc., Aalborg University, and others
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Run by Ryan Gordon, former Loki employee
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No. of Projects, excluding mirrors (From 5 Mar 03, Regardless of activities)
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57,590
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1,468
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554
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over 2,500
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1,761
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85
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4261
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No. of Members (From 5 Mar 03, Regardless of activities)
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578,874
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14,559
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3,178
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Unkown
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32,338
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Unknown
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Unknown
111 Shell Accounts + more developers
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Project Tools - Tools for Public/Developers
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SourceForge
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Savannah
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BerliOS
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freepository
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Asynchrony
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sunsite.dk
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Icculus.org
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Standardized Format for General Information
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Project Homepage
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Role Management (Admin/Developer)
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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No (See 'Policies')
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Statistics
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Project activity, net traffic, comparative stat.
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Project activity, net traffic, comparative stat.
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Yes
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net traffic only
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| File Releases |
Yes |
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Yes |
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Yes |
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| FTP |
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Yes |
Yes |
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Yes |
Yes
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| Download Service |
File Release |
FTP |
File Release, FTP |
HTTPS |
File Release |
FTP |
HTTP
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CVSVersion Control
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Yes
CVS Command Line and ViewCVS
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Yes
CVS Command Line and ViewCVS
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Yes
CVS Command Line and ViewCVS
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Additional Web-based CVS management tool
Command Line, ViewCVS and Web-based CVS management tool (Login, Adding/Deleting directories/files, members management)
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Yes
CVS Command Line and ViewCVS
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Yes
CVS Command Line and ViewCVS
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Yes
CVS Command Line and ViewCVS
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Mailing List
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Ezmlm, Mail Filtering
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Yes
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Forum
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Project News
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Tracker
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Bug / Support / Patch / Feature / Task / Task Dependency
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Bug / Support / Patch / Task
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Bug / Support / Patch / Task
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Project Change Request / Task
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Bugzilla
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IRC
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Yes
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Yes
Server provided SunSITE.dk:6667 and irc.ircnet.dk:6667
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#icculus.org on irc.freenode.net
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Document Management
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DocManager
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FAQ
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DocManager
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Screenshots
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Yes
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Wiki
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Yes
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Usenet
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Yes
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webmail
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Internal
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Yes
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Surveys
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Yes
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Project Tools - Tools for Administrators
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SourceForge
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Savannah
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BerliOS
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freepository
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Asynchrony
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sunsite.dk
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Icculus.org
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Management for Public Tools
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Ask for Help
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Activity History
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Web Server-Side Scripts
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PHP3 and 4
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PHP3
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SSI, PHP, Java(clients), JSP, other CGI on approval
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PHP
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Shell
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Yes
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only some people have it
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Yes
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Available to selected developers
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Yes
Available to team leaders
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Database
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MySQL
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MySQL
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MySQL
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MySQL on request
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Compile Farm
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Yes
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Uploading
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SCP, SFTP
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CVS via SSH
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SCP
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FTP
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FTP and rsync
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SCP
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Personal Page for Developers
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SourceForge
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Savannah
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BerliOS
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freepository
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Asynchrony
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sunsite.dk
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Icculus.org
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Skill and Experience
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Forum/File monitoring
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Projects Involved
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Assigned/Submitted issues from multiple Tracker Lists
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Diary
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Yes
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Yes
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Bookmark
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Survey
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Yes
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Money Earned
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Yes
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Web Space to Host Other Personal Information
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Yes
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Community Tools
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SourceForge
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Savannah
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BerliOS
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freepository
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Asynchrony
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sunsite.dk
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Icculus.org
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Access
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Public
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Public
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Public
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No community tools
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Only for registered members
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Public
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Public
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Search Project
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Keyword
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Keyword
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Keyword
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Type / Status / Keyword / Various Date with sorting preferences
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Search People
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Keyword
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Keyword
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Keyword
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Name / Skill / Rating
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Project Listing at Front Page
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Most Active / Top Download
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Newest GNU / non-GNU / www.gnu.org projects
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Top download / Most active / Newest
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New / Top / Need Beta Testers / Completed
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Selected Projects
Projects listed by the requests of the maintainers of the project
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Classification
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Topics
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GNU and non-GNU
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Topics
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Just a single list of projects
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Latest News
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On new releases
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On new releases
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On new releases
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On site changes and company businesses
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On server status and important projects news
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On new releases
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Help Wanted
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Yes
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Yes (Front page)
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Yes
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Yes (searchable)
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Chat with Support
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via a Client Java interface on site
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Yes
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Other Features
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Advertisements bar from customers
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Opinion Polls
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General Discussion Area (System / Technical / Projects)
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Chat with support
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SkillDrill (External company for skill certification)
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List of Personal web sites
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List of Miscellanenous web sites
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Call for Donation & Credits for Donation
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Server Management
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SourceForge
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Savannah
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BerliOS
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freepository
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Asynchrony
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sunsite.dk
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Icculus.org
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Virtual Hosting
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Yes
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Yes
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host name at projectname.sunsite.dk with email
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Security
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SSH (RSA 1 & 2, Recommended 2), SSL on web
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SSH (RSA 1), SSL on web
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SSH (RSA 1 & 2), SSL on web
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100% SSL
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SSH, SSL
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SSH, SSL
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Backup
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Explicit backup policy (5 type of data, daily)
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Unknown policy
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Unknown policy
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Unknown policy
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Unknown policy
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Daily
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Unknown policy
Backup daily with one week archive
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Software for Web Interface of FOSPHost
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SourceForge
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Code based on SourceForge v2.0
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Code based on SourceForge v1.5
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Login, Adding/Deleting directories/files, members management
freepository
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Developed by Asynchrony
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Perhaps ?Nuke
Drupal
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Just a few html pages
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License of Web Interface
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GPL (but download files not found and no CVS on 24/2/03 and a few other times)
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GPL
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GPL
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GPL
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Proprietary
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UnknownGPL
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ProbableProbably no need for a license
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Others
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SourceForge
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Savannah
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BerliOS
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freepository
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Asynchrony
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sunsite.dk
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Icculus.org
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Policies
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Free/Open Source Projects
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GPL compatible licenses, GNU and non-GNU
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Free/Open Source Projects
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No restriction, Donation Encouraged
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Both Proprietary and Open Source
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Free/Open Source Projects
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No explicit policy, but assume Free/Open Source projects
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The expressed purpose of advancing Free Software
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Completed project can generate cash to contributors
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Emphasis on Money/Rating (sophicated calucations for projects and members for sharing cash
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Data Preservation - contributors own the code but it will cannot be deleted from the site
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Free Software/Rights to Code
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Asynchrony owns the code
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No dependencies to non Free Software
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No GIF files
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No revenue-generating Advertisements
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No Commercial ads and/or banners.
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Content must be legal
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Satisfy Danish law.
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Must use visible re-direction to external sites
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Policy negotiable, Tools negotiable
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Willing to adapt to individual needs
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Must be in English or Danish
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Welcome more volunteers to help run the site
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Flexible and informal to meet the need of individual developers, no strict infrastructure such as 'Role Management'
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Elitist, selective on projects to form a smaller community where individual need can be cared for
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Most donations go to developers need (e.g. new video card, motherboard)
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Additional Services from sites in the same organisation
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Part of OSDN (Open Source Development Network) network with Slashdot, NewsForge, etc
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FSF Related topics and philosophies
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Other services assist Open Source Business development such as SourceAgency and DevCounter
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Some Documentations and Interfaces have European translations other than English
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Note: