Unmaintained Free Software

• unmaintained-free-software.org -- You're currently reading it.

• unmaintained.sourceforge.net -- An alternative location of the site.

• Project page -- The Unmaintained Free Software project-page at SourceForge.

• www.hermann-uwe.de -- My personal homepage.

Press coverage

• Unmaintained Free Software Projects -- A Slashdot coverage of Unmaintained Free Software.

• Unmaintained Free Software -- An announce of Unmaintained Free Software on Kuro5hin, with a few interesting comments.

• Orphaned free software finds a home -- A great article about Unmaintained Free Software on NewsForge. This one features (among other things) some quotes from developers who have taken over maintenance of a project after hearing about it on this site.

Projects similar to Unmaintained Free Software

• UFO -- Unmaintained Free Software and Open source projects (seems to be unmaintained).

• Unmaintained LDP HOWTOs -- A List of unmaintained HOWTOs from the Linux Documentation Project.

• Debian WNPP Project -- Work-Needing and Prospective Packages (WNPP) is a list of packages in need of new maintainers and prospective packages in Debian.

• SourceForge: Help Wanted: Project Manager -- Announces from SourceForge users who seek a new project manager for their project(s).

• Source Code Library -- A site by which uses the (modified) unmaintained code as backend...

Related articles

• Adopt-a-Free-Software-Project Program Launched -- A Slashdot article about the UFO project.

• Orphanages For Abandoned Free Software? -- An Ask Slashdot article about orphaned software...

• Why do Free Software projects fail? -- An Advogato article about the reasons why some projects fail and measures how to avoid that.

• Inroads to Free Software Development -- A Freshmeat editorial with suggestions for anyone wondering how to get started helping with Free Software. There's also an Advogato coverage of this article.

• The Importance of Non-Developer Supporters in Free Software -- A Freshmeat editorial about the crucial value non-developers may hold in advancing the efforts of software projects. This article has also been posted on Advogato.

• How To Write Unmaintainable Code -- This is a tutorial of how not to write your code.

• Golgotha project dies - Why? -- an interesting Technocrat discussion about the reasons why the Golgotha project dies and what can be done to prevent this.

• How to Write Maintainable Code -- an Advogato article which explains some techniques which can make your code more maintainable.

• Which Open Source Projects Are -Really- Collaborative? -- a good Slashdot discussion about collaboration in Free Software projects.

• Transferring the Leadership of Open Source Projects? -- a discussion on Slashdot about what you should do and should not do, if you want to hand over your project to someone else, because you aren't able to maintain it anymore...

Project Hosting Facilities

• sourceforge.net -- SourceForge provides Free Software projects with Web hosting, CVS, forums, download facilities, mailinglists and lots more...

• savannah.gnu.org -- A Free Software hosting project run by the GNU project. It is based on the SourceForge code.

• berlios.de -- A german-language Open Source Software development hosting site. It's based on SourceForge, too.

• sourcefubar.net -- Another hosting project for Free Software projects, with no banners, no spam, and high security.

• tigris.org -- A mid-sized Free Software hosting site. Claims not to have thousands of dead projects.

• serveur-libre.enst-bretagne.fr -- A small french hosting site.

News and discussion

• Freshmeat -- This is a must if you are interested in new or updated GNU/Linux applications.

• Slashdot -- News for Nerds. Stuff that matters.

• Advogato -- The Free Software developer's advocate. Features really great articles and discussions.

• Kuro5hin -- A great Web-based discussion site.

• Linuxtoday -- Collection of all kinds of GNU/Linux and Free Software related news.

• The Linux Game Tome (HappyPenguin) -- This is a Site that tracks new or updated games for GNU/Linux.

Licenses

• Various Licenses and Comments about Them -- A list of licenses and comments about them, gathered together by the GNU people...

• OSI approved licenses -- A list of licenses which are approved as 'Open Source' by the Open Source Initiative (OSI).

• GPL-FAQ -- Frequently Asked Questions about the GNU GPL.

Free Software

• FSF -- The Free Software Foundation.

• GNU -- The Homepage of the GNU-project, a free operating system.

• Debian -- The Homepage of Debian GNU/Linux, a GNU/Linux distribution developed over the internet.

• DSC and DFSG -- The Debian Social Contract (DSC) and the Debian Free Software Guidelines (DFSG).

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