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BerliOS
Type of site
Collaborative revision control and software development management system
OwnerFraunhofer Society
Created byJörg Schilling[1]
URLwww.berlios.de
CommercialNo
RegistrationOptional (required for creating and joining projects)
LaunchedJanuary 2000; 24 years ago (2000-01)
Current statusInactive

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. As of January 1, 2022 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

References

  1. ^ a b "Fraunhofer FOKUS | IT original Jörg Schilling has passed away". www.fokus.fraunhofer.de. Retrieved 2022-01-01.
  2. ^ "BerliOS will be closed on 31.12.2011". BerliOS. 2011-09-30. Archived from the original on 2014-02-09. Retrieved 2017-07-19.
  3. ^ "BerliOS continues – non-profit association is founded". BerliOS. 2011-10-31. Archived from the original on 2012-01-03. Retrieved 2017-07-19.
  4. ^ "BerliOS: Technical improvements and cooperation with SourceForge". BerliOS Developer Weblogs. 2012-02-23. Archived from the original on 2013-01-17.
  5. ^ "BerliOS Projects Saved, Moving to SourceForge for Distribution". SourceForge Community Blog. 2012-04-04. Archived from the original on 2016-05-03. Retrieved 2017-07-19.
  6. ^ "Neues berliOS-Portal gestartet". BerliOS. 2014-01-28. Archived from the original on 2014-02-09. Retrieved 2016-07-12.

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