I remember when I first used PDFCreator, I was doing some freelance web development work. As it happens sometimes, I had a client that was not very tech savvy. I was fortunate that this client could even check email (and even that was stretching it a bit). The PDF format was the one thing he [...]

The end of the year is right around the corner (already!) but we’re not quite done showcasing projects that have been with us for 10 years or more. September’s Project of the Month is GPL Ghostscript, a complete set of page description language interpreters including PDF, PostScript, PCL5, PCLXL, and XPS. Even if you’ve never used [...]

We’re looking for projects interested in becoming early adopters for our newly-enhanced Project Web service.  For years we’ve provided a general web hosting platform, called Project Web, to allow projects to host web pages, provide demos of their applications and deploy third-party web apps for use by their team.  We’ve just finished a major reimplementation [...]

You may have noticed some recent changes here at SourceForge (and if not, that’s ok too.) As a new member of the SF.net team, I’d like to introduce myself. My name is Elizabeth Naramore, and I work as the OSS Outreach Coordinator here. Basically, I get to help ensure that we are doing what we [...]

We’re thrilled to honor network protocol analyzer Wireshark as August’s Project of the Month, one of SourceForge’s longest-lived projects. Originally named Ethereal, its been under development for more than 12 years and is used by companies like Google and Citigroup. Project Lead Gerald Combs says he’s really proud of “Sharkfest, or more accurately what it represents. [...]

All good things come to an end, and so it is with my tenure at SourceForge and parent company Geeknet. I’ve enjoyed learning about the projects I’ve been writing about every day on the community blog, and I’m sorry I won’t be around to share the excitement as the developers debut new features as part [...]

Reproducible research is, or should be, a tenet of any scientific endeavor. In today’s world, it means integrating results of published computational experiments with software and the data necessary for reproducing the experiments. Madagascar, an open source software package for scientific analysis of large digital datasets such as those occurring in geophysics, focuses on promoting [...]

If you’ve ever looked at Google Maps to find points of interest in a given area, and wanted to do something similar with locales of your own, have we got a project for you. Phpoi is a set of PHP scripts for web servers that are designed to handle data about points of interest stored [...]

Five years ago, English developer Stephen Fairchild found himself with access to a Shoutcast server but no way of making a show using free software. “Purely by coincidence I was playing around with Python and working through the PyGTK tutorial at the exact same time, so I decided to attempt to create an Internet radio [...]

If you’re a psychology or neuroscientist, part of your job likely involves conducting experiments for research or clinical purposes. Unfortunately, the most common software tools used to create experiments typically require restrictive and expensive licenses. Not PEBL, however. This seven-year-old special-purpose programming language lets psychologists and neuroscientists create, modify, run, and share computer-based experiments. The Psychology [...]