Project of the Month
Archives
Each month, a project is chosen from the many thousands on SourceForge.net to be our Project of the Month.
November 2008 - shareaza
Shareaza is a multi-network peer-to-peer ( P2P ) file-sharing client supporting Gnutella2, Gnutella, eDonkey2000 ( eMule ), HTTP, FTP and BitTorrent protocols. Using C++, MFC and ATL, for Windows.
October 2008 - concrete5
concrete5 is a content management system, built in PHP, that makes it easy for anyone to run a website. It will save the planet.
September 2008 - WinSCP
WinSCP is an open source SFTP client and FTP client for Windows. Its main function is the secure file transfer between a local and a remote computer. Beyond this, WinSCP offers basic file manager functionality.
August 2008 - Enomalism
Enomalism allows users to create and run any application without worry of infrastructure failure. It is a cost effective way to setup your infrastructure as a scalable world wide virtual compute utility similar to Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud.
July 2008 - Kablink (formerly ICEcore)
Kablink is an extensible collaboration platform that unifies team workspaces with real-time conferencing. It allows teams to boost productivity and reduce communication costs by providing a collaboration platform users can adapt to fit their own changing needs.
June 2008 - PowerFolder
PowerFolder is a Secure, Peer-to-Peer File Transfer Tool. Sync, Access, Share, Backup and Transfer files over the Internet or in LAN. Sync home and office PC, share holiday pictures or work together on documents.
May 2008 - MindTouch
MindTouch Deki Wiki is a free open source wiki. Deki Wiki is an easy to use wiki and extensible enterprise and social application platform.
February 2008 - ehcache
A simple, fast and thread safe cache for Java. ehcache provides memory and disk stores and distributed operation for clusters. ehcache is widely used in such open source projects as Hibernate, Spring and Cocoon.
January 2008 - Hyperic HQ Enterprise Monitoring
Hyperic HQ - open source systems management, Apache management, Tomcat management, LAMP management, WebLogic management, virtualization management, VMware management, WebSphere management, Xen management, JBoss management, and WAMP management.
December 2007 - Firebird
Firebird RDBMS offers many ANSI SQL features & runs on Linux, Windows & several Unix platforms. Features excellent concurrency & performance & powerful stored procedure & trigger language. WEBSITE link above right, TRACKER http://tracker.firebirdsql.org
October 2007 - Barcode4J
Barcode4J is a flexible generator for barcodes written in Java and available under the Apache License v2.0. Features: Extensions for Apache FOP, Xalan-J and SAXON, Servlet, command-line interface, output to SVG, EPS, Java2D/AWT and bitmaps.
September 2007 - Openbravo
Web based ERP for SMEs, built on proven MVC & MDD framework that facilitate customization & maintenance of code. Already in production, it encompasses a broad range of functionalities such as finance, supply chain, project mgmt, manufacturing & much more
August 2007 - Inkscape
Inkscape is a Linux, Windows & OSX vector graphics editor (SVG format) featuring transparency, gradients, node editing, pattern fills, PNG export, and more. Aiming for capabilities similar to Illustrator, CorelDraw, Visio, etc.
May 2007 - Scorched 3D
Scorched3D is a 3D remake of the popular 2D artillery game Scorched Earth. Scorched3D can be played against the computer, other players and remotely across the internet or LAN.
April 2007 - Art of Illusion
Art of Illusion is a full featured 3D modelling, rendering, and animation studio. It is written entirely in Java, and can run on almost any operating system.
March 2007 - Zenoss Core - Enterprise IT Monitoring
Zenoss Core is an enterprise network and systems management application written in Python/Zope. Zenoss provides an integrated product for monitoring availability, performance, events and configuration across layers and across platforms.
February 2007 - FreeCol
FreeCol is an open version of Colonization. It is a Civilization-like game in which the player has to conquer the new world.
January 2007 - FreeNAS
NAS (Network Attached Storage) server supporting: CIFS, FTP, NFS, RSYNC, SSH, AFP, Unison, UPnP, iSCSI protocols, local and MS Domain authentication, Software RAID (JBOD,0,1,5), disk encryption with a Full WEB configuration interface. 32MB only.
December 2006 - Rosegarden
MIDI and Audio Sequencer and Notation Editor for Linux.
October 2006 - Pentaho - Business Intelligence
A complete business intelligence platform that includes reporting, analysis (OLAP), dashboards, data mining and data integration (ETL). Use it as a full suite or as individual components that are accessible via web services. Ranked #1 in open source BI.
September 2006 - Linux NTFS file system support
The goals of this project are: create a new Linux kernel driver for the NTFS file system (1.2, 3.x, and later), user space utilities (e.g. format, ntfs check, etc.) and a library to avoid code duplication and provide access to NTFS to other GPL programs.
July 2006 - openQRM
openQRM is an open source systems management platform which integrates with existing components in enterprise data centers. openQRM is derived from a proven commercial product and distributed under a modified Mozilla Public License.
June 2006 - Sahana disaster management system
Sahana is a web based disaster / crisis / emergency management tool that addresses the common coordination problems from finding missing people, managing aid, volunteers, tracking camps and needs effectively between Government groups, NGOs and victims
May 2006 - Stellarium
Stellarium renders 3D photo-realistic skies in real time with OpenGL. It displays stars, constellations, planets, nebulas and others things like ground, landscape, atmosphere, etc.
April 2006 - Filesystem in Userspace
FUSE makes it possible to implement a filesystem in a userspace program. Features include: simple yet comprehensive API, secure mounting by non-root users, support for 2.4 and 2.6 Linux kernels, multi-threaded operation. etc...
March 2006 - CMU Sphinx
Sphinx is a speaker-independent large vocabulary continuous speech recognizer released under a BSD style license. It is also a collection of open source tools and resources that allows researchers and developers to build speech recognition systems.
February 2006 - FreeMind
A mind mapper, and at the same time an easy-to-operate hierarchical editor with strong emphasis on folding. These two are not really two different things, just two different descriptions of a single application. Often used for knowledge and content mgmt.
January 2006 - Nullsoft Scriptable Install System
NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System) is a professional open-source tool for the development of Windows installers. It is designed to be as small and flexible as possible and is therefore highly suitable for internet distribution.
December 2005 - FCKeditor
Online text editor (DHTML editor), for ASP, ASP.NET, ColdFusion, PHP, Java and JavaScript brings to the web many of the powerful features of known desktop editors like Word. It's XHTML compliant and works with Firefox, Mozilla, Netscape and IE.
November 2005 - NHibernate
A .NET port of the excellent Java Hibernate (http://www.hibernate.org) relational persistence tool.
October 2005 - MediaWiki
MediaWiki is the collaborative editing software that runs Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, and other projects. It's designed to handle a large number of users and pages without imposing too rigid a structure or workflow.
September 2005 - MinGW - Minimalist GNU for Windows
MinGW: A native Win32 port of the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC), with freely distributable import libraries and header files for building native Windows applications; includes extensions to the MSVC runtime to support C99 functionality.
August 2005 - Gourmet
Gourmet Recipe Manager is a recipe-organizer for GNOME that generates shopping lists and allows rapid searching of recipes. It imports mealmaster & mastercook files and exports webpages & other formats. Gourmet uses python, gtk and metakit.
July 2005 - JasperReports - Java Reporting
JasperReports, the market leading open source business intelligence and reporting engine. This project is being moved to http://www.jasperforge.org/. This project is the home for all things Jasper, Reports, Analysis, Server, and Intelligence.
June 2005 - Nagios
Nagios is a powerful host and service monitoring program designed to run on most *NIX systems. It is written in C and designed to be fast and flexible. It has the ability to contact administrators via email, pager, or other user-defined methods.
May 2005 - Robosapien Dance Machine
Robosapien Dance Machine - completely control your Robosapien with just your voice while you unleash the funky power of your Robosapien! Create dances, your own comedy movies, and more with this powerful interactive script editor.
April 2005 - net-snmp
net-snmp provides tools and libraries relating to the Simple Network Management Protocol including: An extensible agent, An SNMP library, tools to request or set information from SNMP agents, tools to generate and handle SNMP traps, etc.
March 2005 - OGRE (O-O Graphics Rendering Engine)
An efficient, object-oriented hardware accelerated 3D engine. It abstracts the differences between APIs and platforms and allows scene-oriented coding through an easy to use object model. Adaptable to multiple scene types (indoor, outdoor, whatever)
February 2005 - ClamWin Free Antivirus
MS Windows front-end to Clam Antivirus (http://www.clamav.net). Includes scheduler, virus database updates, standalone scanner, context menu integration to MS Windows Explorer and Addin to MS Outlook. Also features easy setup program.
January 2005 - RSSOwl | RSS / RDF / Atom Newsreader
RSSOwl is a RSS / RDF / Atom Newsreader written in Java using SWT as fast graphic library. Read News in a tabfolder, save favorites in categories, Export to PDF / RTF / HTML / OPML, Import Feeds from OPML, perform fulltext-search, use internal browser
December 2004 - TortoiseCVS
TortoiseCVS is an extension for Microsoft Windows Explorer that makes using CVS fun and easy. Features include: coloured icons, tight integration with SSH, and context-menu interactivity.
November 2004 - PearPC - PowerPC Emulator
PearPC is an architecture independent PowerPC platform emulator capable of running most PowerPC operating systems. It includes a JITC for x86-Processors.
October 2004 - SugarCRM
SugarCRM v4.5.1 now available! A complete CRM system for businesses of all sizes. Core CRM functionality includes sales force automation, marketing campaigns, support cases, project mgmt, calendaring and more. Built in PHP, supports MySQL and SQL Server.
September 2004 - Azureus
Azureus is a powerful, full-featured, cross-platform bittorrent client.
August 2004 - Bochs x86 PC emulator
Bochs is a portable x86 PC emulation software package that emulates enough of the x86 CPU, related AT hardware, and BIOS to run Windows, Linux, *BSD, Minix, and other OS's, all on your workstation.
July 2004 - Audacity
A fast multi-track audio editor and recorder for Linux, BSD, Mac OS, and Windows. Supports WAV, AIFF, Ogg, and MP3 formats. Features include envelope editing, mixing, built-in effects and plug-ins, all with unlimited undo.
June 2004 - AWStats
AWStats is a free powerful and featureful server logfile analyzer that shows you all your Web/Mail/FTP statistics including visits, unique visitors, pages, hits, rush hours, os, browsers, search engines, keywords, robots visits, broken links and more...
May 2004 - eGroupWare: Enterprise Collaboration
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
April 2004 - BZFlag - Multiplayer 3D Tank Game
OpenSource OpenGL Multiplayer Multiplatform Battle Zone capture the Flag. 3D first person Tank Simulation.
March 2004 - Mailman
Mailman is the GNU mailing list manager. It provides standard list management features, integrated with a web interface. Please note: the subversion repository has been retired. Please see http://wiki.list.org/x/DgAJ for details.
February 2004 - Compiere ERP + CRM Business Solution
Smart ERP+CRM solution for Small-Medium Enterprises in the global market covering all areas from order and customer/supplier management, supply chain to accounting. For $5-500M revenue companies looking for "brick and click" first tier functionality.
January 2004 - phpBB
phpBB is the worlds leading Open Source flat style discussion forum software. It includes all the features you expect to find in todays top of the line software.
December 2003 - PhpGedView
PhpGedView parses GEDCOM 5.5 genealogy files and displays them on the internet in formats and charts that you are familiar with. It also allows relatives to edit their genealogy online and collaborate together on their research.
November 2003 - FileZilla
FileZilla is a fast FTP and SFTP client for Windows with a lot of features. FileZilla Server is a reliable FTP server.
October 2003 - Gallery
A slick, intuitive web based photo gallery. Gallery is easy to install, configure and use. Gallery photo management includes automatic thumbnails, resizing, rotation, and more. Authenticated users and privileged albums make this great for communities.
September 2003 - TightVNC
TightVNC is an improved version of VNC, great free remote-desktop tool. The improvements include bandwidth-friendly "Tight" encoding, local cursor support on the client side, enhanced GUI, many bugfixes, and more.
August 2003 - Boa Constructor - wxPython GUI Builder
A RAD GUI Building IDE for wxPython.
July 2003 - Tikiwiki
Powerful multilingual Wiki/CMS/Groupware: File/Image gallery,Article,Blog,Tracker/Forms,Forum,Poll/Survey & Quiz,Newsletter,Calendar,Drawing,Bookmarks,FAQ,Banner ads,Categories,Spreadsheet,Maps,Workflow,Search,Theme control,WAP,VoiceXML,RSS,LDAP,Stats...
June 2003 - 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.
May 2003 - POPFile - Automatic Email Classification
POPFile is an email classification tool with a Naive Bayes classifier, POP3, SMTP, NNTP proxies and IMAP filter and a web interface. It runs on most platforms and with most email clients.
April 2003 - JBoss.org
The JBoss/Server is the leading Open Source, standards-compliant, J2EE based application server implemented in 100% Pure Java
March 2003 - TUTOS
TUTOS is _T_he _U_ltimate _T_eam _O_rganization _S_oftware, a webbased groupware or ERP/CRM/PLM system to manage your and your teams appointments, addresses, projects, tasks, bugs, mailboxes, documents, notes and your time spent with those things.
February 2003 - Crystal Space 3D SDK
Crystal Space is an Open Source 3D SDK for Unix, Windows, MacOS/X. It renders with OpenGL or software and features curved surfaces, volumetric fog, dynamic colored lighting, terrain engine, LOD, procedural textures, portals, etc.
January 2003 - SquirrelMail
SquirrelMail is a PHP-based Web email client. It includes built-in pure PHP support for IMAP and SMTP, and renders all pages in pure HTML 4.0 for maximum compatibility across browsers. It has strong MIME support and a flexible plugin system.
December 2002 - 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.
November 2002 - Fink
Fink is an attempt to bring the full world of Unix Open Source software to Darwin and Mac OS X. Packages are downloaded and built automatically and installed into a tree managed by dpkg, all with full dependency tracking.
October 2002 - Gaim
Gaim has been renamed to Pidgin. Pidgin is a GTK+ instant messaging application for Windows and Unix. It supports AIM, ICQ, Jabber/XMPP, MSN, Yahoo!, Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, IRC, QQ, SILC, SIMPLE and more. See http://pidgin.im/about.php for more information.