BerliOS

BerliOS (short for " Berlin Open Source" ) is a project that it has set itself the target to form a communication platform for users, developers and commercial manufacturer and service provider of open source software. Until April 2014, there was also a development platform for open - source projects.

History

Following a decision of the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology (BMWi ) to actively promote the use of open source software, the project BerliOS was first announced in May 2000 by the Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems (FOKUS ). In addition to the promotion by the BMWi there were additional sponsors of the economy, such as the Hewlett-Packard Company, Deutsche Telekom subsidiary T-Systems or the IHK Berlin. The funding amounted to the equivalent of around 500,000 euros at the beginning.

In February 2005, the platform became negative in the headlines, as it turned out, that is visible to every file with the encrypted passwords of users was available on a Subversion server. After the leaders noticed this the file was protected, however only part of the user informed about the facts. More Safety concerns have been raised in January 2010 when ( If you do not have the capacity for a successful hacker attack on the main page of the text "If you have no Capacities to Properly administrate a system then do not do it! " To administer a system properly, then it does not matter! ) was to read.

End of September 2011 informed the project that the company will discontinue due to insufficient funding seized the end of the same year.

End of October 2011 were known plans under which the project is to be continued on the basis of a non-profit organization with the help of volunteers.

February 2012 abandoned the project announced that a partnership with SourceForge, it was decided to continue to maintain the safe operation and download capacity. To this end, SourceForge is to be offered as a mirror for BerliOS downloads.

End of January 2014 Berlios cancel the setting of the developer platform at the end of April of the same year, known and referred the project managers a migration to SourceForge close. Alternatively, you could export its project data. Berlios persists as an information portal for open source, especially with the possibility to search for open- source software.

Technology

The technique of developer platform based on an older version of SourceForge, at a time when this was still under a free license. In contrast to Sourceforge BerliOS behind the application is therefore still free.