Hi, everyone, and welcome to our monthly SourceForge.net update. If you're
keeping a collection of these messages, don't worry that you missed last
month's - we didn't have one, because we just didn't have anything to tell
you.

Planned Geeknet network maintenance

We have planned maintenance in our data center that will require downtime
in April for all Geeknet sites: ThinkGeek, Slashdot, freshmeat, Ohloh, and
SourceForge.net. Unless otherwise noted in our Site Status
(https://sourceforge.net/sitestatus

), this work is planned to occur as
follows:

Start: Saturday, April 17, 2010 at 05:00:00 UTC / Fri 10:00 PM PDT
End: Saturday, April 17, 2010 at 13:00:00 UTC / Sat 6:00 AM PDT

This work may be cause for sporadic outages on all of the aforementioned
sites. We have a backup window, in case any follow-up work is needed on the
next day, Sunday April 18, during the same time window. Please monitor our
Site Status for updates.

SourceForge.net IRC community

The SourceForge.net support team can be found live online in IRC
(https://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/sourceforge/wiki/Support%20by%20IRC

)
during the work week from about 7:00 AM to 4:00 PM Pacific time. In this
channel we provide direct support, review site issues, and a group of
regulars often discuss coding, project organization, tool usage, and other
topics of general interest to the OSS community.

Drop by sometime. We're on the Freenode.net IRC channel #sourceforge. The
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http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=sourceforge

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Hosted Apps changes

On 26 April 2010 SourceForge.net plans to make a change to the way Hosted
Apps are integrated on the site. We are implementing infrastructure changes
that will allow more user flexibility with Hosted Apps. We'll be sending
out an email to project members with the specifics in the next two weeks.

Lee Schlesinger
leeschlesinger at users.sourceforge.net

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== March Project of the Month: Arianne ==

Arianne comprises a multiplayer online games framework and engine to
develop turn-based and real-time games, and the various games which use it.


More info: https://sourceforge.net/blog/potm-201003/

== April Project of the Month: Mantis Bug Tracker ==

Mantis is an easily deployable, web-based bug tracker.

More info: https://sourceforge.net/blog/potm-201004/

With these projects, and for the rest of 2010, we're highlighting some of
our most venerable projects. Each of these Projects of the Month is one of
about 1,000 that began hosting on SourceForge.net in the site's first year
of existence, beginning in November 1999.

== Statistics ==

Daily SourceForge.net Stats for 29-Mar-2010:

13,554,123 pages served
2,817,863 files downloaded
224 new projects approved

== Top 25 Projects ==

1. PostBooks ERP, accounting, CRM by xTuple
https://sourceforge.net/projects/postbooks

Free open source ERP, accounting, CRM package for small to midsized
businesses. Runs on Linux, Mac, and Windows (built with open source Qt
framework). Business logic resides in PostgreSQL database. Rich API for
connecting to third-party apps.

2. phpMyAdmin
https://sourceforge.net/projects/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.

3. 7-Zip
https://sourceforge.net/projects/sevenzip

7-Zip is a file archiver with the high compression ratio. The program
supports 7z, ZIP, CAB, RAR, ARJ, LZH, CHM, GZIP, BZIP2, Z, TAR, CPIO, ISO,
MSI, WIM, NSIS, RPM and DEB formats.

4. Notepad++
https://sourceforge.net/projects/notepad-plus

Notepad++, a source code editor and MS Windows Notepad replacement, has the
mission to offer a greener environment. By optimizing its routines, it
results in reducing CPU power consumption then reducing the world carbon
dioxide emissions.

5. KeePass Password Safe
https://sourceforge.net/projects/keepass

KeePass Password Safe is a free, open source, light-weight and easy-to-use
password manager for Windows. You can store your passwords in a
highly-encrypted database, which is locked with one master password or key
file.

6. Arianne RPG
https://sourceforge.net/projects/arianne

Arianne is a multiplayer online engine to develop turn based and real time
games providing a simple way of creating the game server rules and clients
like Stendhal. Our engine Marauroa uses Java and SQL for hosting hundreds
of players on a solo host.

7. IXThemes
https://sourceforge.net/projects/ixthemes

IXThemes is an implementation of innovative methods in the development of
qualitative universality themes and templates for content management
systems based on the XOOPS Web application platform such as pure XOOPS,
ImpressCMS, EXM System, and others.

8. Openbravo ERP
https://sourceforge.net/projects/openbravo

Openbravo ERP is the professional web-based open source ERP solution
providing unique high-impact benefits: 1) Comprehensive 2) Innovative 3)
Cost effective. | IMPORTANT NOTICE. Openbravo ERP project community is now
active at http://forge.openbravo.com

9. OrangeHRM - Human Resource Management
https://sourceforge.net/projects/orangehrm

OrangeHRM is an Open Source Human Resource Management System that covers
Personnel Information Management, Employee Self Service, Leave, Time and
Attendance, Benefits, and Recruitment. Tags: HRM, HRMS, HCM, HRIS, EHRMS,
Human Capital Management

10. ADempiere ERP Business Suite
https://sourceforge.net/projects/adempiere

ADempiere Business Suite ERP/CRM/MFG/SCM/POS done the Bazaar way in an open
and unabated fashion. Focus is on the Community that includes Subject
Matter Specialists, Implementors and End-Users. We are a community fork of
Compiere.

11. MinGW - Minimalist GNU for Windows
https://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw

MinGW: A native Windows 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.

12. MediaInfo
https://sourceforge.net/projects/mediainfo

Get technical information and tags of a lot of multimedia files. Supported
formats : - Video : AVI/OGM/MKV/MPG/VOB/MP4/3GP/..