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BerliOS Software Repository Will Close At Year's End
An anonymous reader writes with some sad news from Germany, as posted on the BerliOS front page, and sent by email to developers as well. An excerpt: "As an European, non-proprietary project BerliOS pursued the goal to support the various open-source players and provide a neutral mediator function. In 2011 over 4710 projects have been hosted on BerliOS, with 50,000 registered users and over 2.6 million file downloads each month. We are proud that with BerliOS we have brought the idea of an OSS repository to Europe. Meanwhile, the concept has prevailed and there are many good alternatives. Unfortunately, as a research institute Fraunhofer FOKUS has only few opportunities to operate a repository like BerliOS. Such a project will only work with a follow-up financing, or with sponsors or partners taking over the repository. In the field of OSS this is a difficult undertaking. In a recent survey the community indicated some support in funds and manpower which we would like to thank you for. Unfortunately, the result is not enough to put the project on a sustainable financial basis. In addition the search for sponsors or partners was unsuccessful. ... As a developer, you should export your BerliOS project into another repository." BerliOS is slated to close on December 31st.
I started researching tools and writing scripts to split up a repository and move to github yesterday.
If you have a complicated non-standard svn layout, you should look into the svn2git on gitorious (there are many tools with that name).
Hi. As someone else mentioned in some German forum, it is probable that all orphaned projects on BerliOS will perish the day BerliOS is taken down for good. - Anyone here who could offer a full mirror of the data. Or would Archive.org be an option? zapyon
I like my spaghetti with source.
You mean "get ready Github ..."
BerliOS definitely has publicity problems. Either that, or the people running it don't have much of a passion for keeping it running, because the first I heard about them having problems was about them deciding to shut it down.
Contrast that to, say, Wikipedia, Blender, or The Document Foundation. Major publicity when they needed money, with progress tallies and everything. Especially Wikipedia.
Have a nice time.
Several projects actually migrated from Sourceforge to BerliOS after Sourceforge was forced to make developers indicate whether their project might contain code not suitable for export to countries such as Iran according to US foreign policy rules (and developers moreover have to register with some US department if they indicate that their project does contain such code and want to have it hosted on Sourceforge).
Sourceforge alternative for the GNU-minded:
GNU Savannah
http://savannah.gnu.org/
I'm not a lawyer, but I play one on the Internet. Blog
Let's ogg them!
The creatures outside looked from Alt-Right to Antifa; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
Sounds to me like you're describing some serious cultural anxiety there.
And you're deluding yourself about the difference between the UK and continental Europe. The UK isn't so different and the various countries in continental Western Europe aren't as similar as you seem to think. Having been in all of those places, the difference between Germany and the UK is smaller than, e.g., the difference between Germany and Italy or Spain. In either case, the similarities dominate. And the dissimilarities within the countries (e.g. between urban and rural, richest vs poorest 10%) are more significant than the dissimilarities between the countries.
It's obviously not even the same ball park as the difference between Mexico and the US; I mean, that's just ludicrous.
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Who's heart's bleeding? The Faunhofer Institute, isn't that the bunch of goons that burn government money and then want money for the stuff they come up with?
Applied research demands money and talent that does not come free.
You need a budget of about 1.65 billion euros each year to function at this level.
The Fraunhofer Society earns ca. 70% of its income through contracts with industry or specific government projects. The other 30% of the budget is sourced in the proportion 9:1 from federal and state (Land) government grants and is used to support preparatory research.
Thus the size of the society's budget depends largely on its success in maximizing revenue from commissions. This funding model applies not just to the central society itself but also to the individual institutes. This serves both to drive the realisation of the Fraunhofer Society's strategic direction of becoming a leader in applied research...
The Fraunhofer Society currently operates 60 institutes. The organisation has seven centers in the United States, under the name 'Fraunhofer USA', and three in Asia. In October 2010, Fraunhofer announced that it would open its first research center in South America.
These are Fraunhofer Institutes for:
Algorithms and Scientific Computing -- SCAI
Applied Information Technology -- FIT
Applied and Integrated Security -- AISEC
Applied Optics and Precision Engineering -- IOF
Applied Polymer Research --IAP
Applied Solid State Physics â" IAF
Biomedical Engineering -- IBMT
Building Physics -- IBP
Ceramic Technologies and Systems -- IKTS
Chemical Technology -- ICT
Communication, Information Processing and Ergonomics -- FKIE
Communication Systems -- ESK Computer Architecture and Software Technology -- FIRST
Computer Graphics Research -- IGD
Digital Media Technology -- IDMT
Electron and Plasma Technology -- FEP
e-Government -- Fraunhofer eGovernment Center
Environmental, Safety and Energy Technology -- UMSICHT
Experimental Software Engineering -- IESE
Factory Operation and Automation -- IFF
High Frequency Physics and Radar Techniques -- FHR
High-Speed Dynamics, Ernst-Mach-Institut -- EMI
Industrial Engineering -- IAO
Industrial Mathematics -- ITWM
Optronics, System Technologies and Image Exploitation -- IOSB
Information Center for Regional Planning and Building Construction -- IRB
Integrated Circuits -- IIS
Integrated Systems and Device Technology -- IISB>br>Integrated Publication and Information Systems -- IPSI
Intelligent Analysis and Information Systems -- IAIS
Interfacial Engineering and Biotechnology -- IGB
Laser Technology -- ILT
Machine Tools and Forming Technology -- IWU
Manufacturing Engineering and Applied Materials Research -- IFAM
Manufacturing Engineering and Automation -- IPA
Material and Beam Technology -- IWS
Material Flow and Logistics -- IML
Mechanics of Materials -- IWM
Medical Image Computing -- MEVIS
Microelectronic Circuits and Systems -- IMS
Molecular Biology and Applied Ecology -- IME
Telecommunications, Heinrich-Hertz-Institut -- HHI
Non-Destructive Testing -- IZFP
Optronics, System Technologies and Image Exploitation -- IOSB
Open Communication Systems -- FOKUS
Patent Center for German Research -- PST
Photonic Microsystems -- IPMS
Physical Measurement Techniques -- IPM
Process Engineering and Packaging -- IVV
Production Systems and Design Technology -- IPK
Production Technology -- IPT
Reliability and Microintegration -- IZM
Secure Information Technology -- SIT
Silicate Research -- ISC
Silicon Technology -- ISIT
Smart Systems Integration by using Micro and Nano Technologies -- ENAS
Software and Systems Technology -- ISST
Solar Energy Systems -- ISE
Structural Durability and System Reliability -- LBF
Systems and Innovation Research -- ISI
Technological Trend Analysis -- INT
Technology Development Group -- TEG