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July Project of the Month

If you’ve got a project hosted here at SourceForge, then you probably have a Web site where people can go to learn more about what you’re working on. Although we serve up a bunch of statistics and data about your project’s activity here, we can’t tell you what happens once visitors leave our site so you a need good Web analytics app for your own site. July’s Project of the Month, Piwik, is just the ticket.

Piwik keeps track of how many visitors you get, what search engines and keywords they used to get to your site, and a ton of other real-time data. The Piwik team says that one company even “built a custom plugin to merge the Piwik data source with their CRM to learn more about their customer journey from their online campaign or search engines to their website and how they converted.” How cool is that?

Check out Piwik’s Project of the Month page to learn more about this spiffy Web analytics tool, then have a look at past winners you might have missed.

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Check Out Some Projects Looking for Volunteers

If you love open source and have some extra time on your hands, why not consider volunteering to help out one of the projects hosted on SourceForge? You don’t need mad developer skills to pitch in, most projects will welcome volunteers with all levels of experience.

Even if you no coding skills at all, don’t let that stop you from finding a way to lend a hand because there’s always something that needs to get done. Project leads will help match your skills and interests to their todo list and you could end up doing anything from testing an app for bugs to touching up artwork and logos.

Here are a few projects looking for volunteers right now:

Ikasan is a Java-based middleware platform that was recently open sourced by a banking institution and needs Java developers to help take the project to the next level.

SourceForge community member wek21 is looking for people with Qt or KDE-related programming skills to help put together a desktop applet for Plasma that notifies users when friends update their social networking sites.

Graphic artists might want to hit up isaque to help create artwork for the task manager project, Coyote.

There are a bunch of things to do over at the auction script project WeBid, including help finishing the payment system and “making the front end less ugly.”

Twincling, a repository of open source software developed by an India-based technology company, is looking for PHP programmers to work on two projects; -dmod and -scano.

You can always find the latest volunteer help wanted ads on our forums.

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