Sourceforge Diaspora: Slide 3

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<h3>Post-Sourceforge Diaspora</h3>
<ul><li>Berlios</li>
<li>Gna!</li>
<li>Savannah</li>
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<p>There have even
been <a href="https://www.igi-global.com/article/fork-not-fork/68147">academic
whitepapers</a> written about this situation as late as 2011.</p>
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Sourceforge, and ironically, the successor in interest, Sourceforce, Inc.,
realized Inkscape downloads were one of their largest downloaded projects,
and constantly pitched us toxic revenue-sharing schemes until Inkscape
finally escaped Sourceforge.
finally escaped Sourceforge. [ next slide ]
## Sourceforge Diaspora: Slide 3
The reason some projects had such trouble with getting away from Sourceforge
was because there wasn't a primary fork, but dozens. Here's a list of the
ones that Bradley could remember, but he recalls at the time there were at
least four or five more that split the attention of the community so badly
that, by the time AJAX and Web 2.0 came along, there was not enough
leadership to move an old PHP+HTML application to the more interactive and
modern looks that users were demanding by the late 2000s. [ switch slides ]