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BerliOS 
URL BerliOS.de Commercial? No Type of site Collaborative revision control and software development management system Registration Optional (required for creating and joining projects) Owner Fraunhofer Society Created by FOKUS Launched January 2000 Current status Active BerliOS (short for "Berlin Open Source") is a project founded by FOKUS, a Fraunhofer Institute located in Berlin, to coordinate the different interest groups in the field of open source software (OSS) and to assume a neutral coordinator function. The target groups of BerliOS are developers and users of open source software on the one side and OSS-related companies on the other.
BerliOS consists of several subprojects:
- Developer, a hosting platform for open source projects similar to SourceForge.net, GNU Savannah and JavaForge
- DocsWell, a database for open source related documentation
- SourceWell, a news service for open source projects
- SourceLines, a "best practice" database for successful open source projects
- SourceBiz, a list of open source companies
- DevCounter, a database of open source developer profiles
- OpenFacts, a wiki-based open source knowledge database (using the MediaWiki software)
- SourceAgency (beta), a platform for coordinating open source funding
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Closure and relaunch
The operators of the BerliOS project announced that BerliOS will close at the end of 2011 due to lack of sufficient funding and support.[1]
At the news of the pending closure BerliOS received numerous rescue proposals. As a result it was further announced that BerliOS would continue as a non-profit institute run by a combination of volunteers, donations and corporate sponsorship.[2]
See also
External links
- Official BerliOS homepage
- OpenFacts2 (English portal) the BerliOS wiki
References
- ^ Fraunhofer FOKUS (September 30, 2011). "BerliOS will be closed on 31.12.2011". BerliOS Neuigkeiten. BerliOS. http://developer.berlios.de/forum/forum.php?forum_id=37450. Retrieved October 2, 2011.
- ^ http://developer.berlios.de/forum/forum.php?forum_id=37533
Bug tracking systems Years indicate the date of first stable release.Client-server 
Distributed Free/open-source- Fossil (2006)
Hosted - SourceForge (1999)
- BerliOS (2000)
- GNU Savannah (2000)
- Assembla (2005)
- CodePlex (2006)
- Google Code (2007)
- GitHub (2008)
- Bitbucket (2008)
- Bontq (2010)
- YouTrack (2011)
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