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Ask Slashdot: Where to Host Many Small, Related Projects?

Posted by timothy on from the you-might-say-a-host-of-them dept.

MellowTigger writes "I work at a non-profit organization. I am looking for a site where we can register an account under our group's name, then spawn multiple projects to solicit programmer help for our organization. The current projects that we have in mind are small and probably not of interest to the wider world, although one very large project is possible. I need a site that emphasizes our non-profit as the benefactor rather than the wider world, since most projects are so specific that wider applicability seems slim. We would need help with various technologies including at least Powershell and SQL. At the moment, my available options emphasize individual projects of public interest, so we would have to spawn multiple independent projects, seeming to spam the host with 'pointless' minor tasks. We already have technical people seeking to donate time. We just need a way to coordinate skill matching, document sharing, and code submission out on the web. What do you suggest?"

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  1. Are you serious by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    Github. Sourceforge. Wow that was hard.

    1. Re:Are you serious by Stalinbulldog · · Score: 4, Funny

      I can answer this one! Yes, the only way to change your desktop background is to install linux over windows xp.

  2. GitHub by Anml4ixoye · · Score: 4, Informative

    If you are making the repositories public, GitHub is the way to go. You only have to pay if the repositories are private. It gives you the ability for people to send pull requests for changes (which you can choose to accept), issue tracking, etc. The pull request system is really nice, because you ultimately have control of what gets pulled into your project, but anyone can pull it down. It's pretty much the standard hosting, and works across all platforms.

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    1. Re:GitHub by emddudley · · Score: 4, Informative

      You only have to pay if the repositories are private.

      GitHub offers free bronze plans (10 private repositories) for nonprofits.

  3. Re:Freepository by dgatwood · · Score: 4, Funny

    Freepository is a reliable solution if you are willing to shell out some cash. I think they stopped their free offering sometime back, but plans start from $9/month if your contributers are limited in number.

    Perhaps in light of not being free, they should change their prefix. Might I recommend "sup". It's short for supported. :-D

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