BerliOS explained

BerliOS should not be confused with Berlioz.

BerliOS
Commercial:No
Type:Collaborative revision control and software development management system
Registration:Optional (required for creating and joining projects)
Owner:Fraunhofer Society
Author:Jörg Schilling
Current Status:Inactive

BerliOS (short for "Berlin Open Source") is a project founded by the Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems (FOKUS), Berlin,[1] 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 were developers and users of open source software on the one side and OSS-related companies on the other. its website was still accessible, though hosting no projects.

Overview

BerliOS consisted of several subprojects:

Closure

The operators of the BerliOS project announced that BerliOS would close at the end of 2011 due to lack of sufficient funding and support.[2] As the news of the pending closure spread, BerliOS received numerous rescue proposals. As a result, it was later announced that BerliOS would continue as a non-profit institute run by a combination of volunteers, donations and corporate sponsorship.[3]

On February 23, 2012, BerliOS announced on their blog that a cooperation agreement had been signed with SourceForge, which meant that all projects hosted on BerliOS' systems would be automatically mirrored in new and separate projects on SourceForge.[4] On April 4, 2012, SourceForge reiterated this statement on their blog and provided more specifics about the collaboration.[5]

In January 2014 BerliOS announced that they would disable their hosting services on 30 April 2014.[6]

See also

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Fraunhofer FOKUS IT original Jörg Schilling has passed away. 2022-01-01. www.fokus.fraunhofer.de.
  2. Web site: BerliOS will be closed on 31.12.2011 . BerliOS . 2011-09-30 . 2017-07-19 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140209141200/http://developer.berlios.de/forum/forum.php?forum_id=37450 . 2014-02-09 . dead .
  3. Web site: BerliOS continues – non-profit association is founded . https://web.archive.org/web/20120103234708/https://developer.berlios.de/forum/forum.php?forum_id=37533 . 2012-01-03 . dead . 2011-10-31 . BerliOS . 2017-07-19.
  4. Web site: BerliOS: Technical improvements and cooperation with SourceForge . 2012-02-23 . BerliOS Developer Weblogs . https://web.archive.org/web/20130117023239/http://developer.berlios.de/devlog/blog/2012/02/23/berlios-technical-improvements-and-cooperation-with-sourceforge . 2013-01-17 . dead .
  5. Web site: BerliOS Projects Saved, Moving to SourceForge for Distribution . SourceForge Community Blog . 2012-04-04 . 2017-07-19 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160503103704/https://sourceforge.net/blog/berlios-projects-saved-moving-to-sourceforge-for-distribution/ . 2016-05-03 . live .
  6. Web site: Neues berliOS-Portal gestartet . https://web.archive.org/web/20140209084941/http://developer.berlios.de/forum/forum.php?forum_id=39221 . 2014-02-09 . dead . BerliOS . 2014-01-28 . 2016-07-12.

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