This month’s Project of the Month winner is DOSBox, a free and open source DOS-emulator that lets you run classic games on any platform. To learn more about it, read an interview with the team behind DOSBox, and be sure to check out the advice they give to projects that are just starting out.

DotProject has been around since 2001, so the team has a lot of experience under its belt. They say one of the best things a new project team can do when starting out is to “get a clear idea of what your project is designed to do and make sure you stick to that. Do one thing and do it well. ”

A wide variety of businesses deploy dotProject, from an Australian winery to an aircraft manufacturer. Apparently, there’s even a defense contractor using dotProject but they won’t say why (mystery!). How cool is that?

Project Leader Sami Kyöstilä says he’s been “overwhelmed by the community’s response to Frets On Fire, “These days you can find thousands of community-made add-on song tabulatures on the Internet, along with several high-quality game modifications that provide new graphics, instruments and other amazing features. Several people have also built their own custom guitar controllers for the game. One example I found particularly inspiring was a University project in which a special version of the game along with custom controllers was created for the blind.”

Read all about Frets On Fire on its Project of the Month page, then download it and check it out for yourself. How fast are your fingers?

If the name isn’t familiar, the interface surely is. Wordpress has been shipping TinyMCE as its editor of choice since the release of Wordpress 2.0, and it’s also the default editor for the popular content management system, Joomla.

Project leads Johan “Spocke” Sˆrlin and Joakim Lindkvist say they’re really proud of TinyMCE because of its clean, tight code and because it holds its own against similar (and costly) commercial solutions.

Have a look at this month’s Project of the Month page to read all about TinyMCE and its goals for the future.

Shareaza’s developers say there’s lots of things that make this project unique. “It is probably the only app that supports completely all features of the G2 network, it allows advanced control of downloads and searches and all aspects of the application, it can search by various hashes: sha1, tiger, ed2k, md5, btih (this also allows for revival of dead torrents by search torrent sources using btih over G2 and also allow to download from other networks the same file).”

There’s more, too, and you can read all about it right here.

One great goal of concrete5 is to make website building and maintenance approachable. “We think websites are kind of like homes; you want a professional to build the bones, but a lot of home owners do great DIY work on their own. We continually push c5 to be a flexible building material for developers, and easy for the eventual site owner to feel comfortable using,” says CEO Franz Maruna.

Even if you’re not shopping for a CMS right now, take a look at the answers the guys from concrete5 provided for the Project of the Month questionnaire. I don’t know what’s funnier; their responses or the pictures they provided.

“WinSCP is an open source SFTP client and FTP client for Windows. Its main function is the secure file transfer between a local and a remote computer. Beyond this, WinSCP offers basic file manager functionality. It uses Secure Shell (SSH) and supports, in addition to Secure FTP, also legacy SCP protocol. It was the first ever GUI SCP (and later SFTP) client for Windows.”

WinSCP has been around a long time and has lots of loyal users. Read more about it at the September Project of the Month page. You can also check the main POTM page to learn about past winners.

It’s already time to tell you about the August Project of the Month and that means it’s the last PotM for the season (but, of course, not for the year). Enomalism gets the honors this month. It’s a really neat virtual server management project that’s been growing steadily since it first got started in 2005.

To find out more about Enomalism and why businesses like Intel and France Telecom use it, check out the newest Project of the Month page.

I caught up with ICEcore’s community manager, Brent McConnell, and a couple of its developers to get the inside scoop on what the project’s all about. McConnell talked a bit about ICEcore’s history, why teams love it, and hinted that there’s some pretty big news set to be announced very soon.

Read all about ICEcore at the Project of the Month page!