Today we are making some important changes to the Community Hub. Our goal has always been to ensure open, clear communication between our user community and the SourceForge engineering team. Part of having an open process is making sure that information is easy to find, which wasn’t always true in the past. To improve the dialog, we decided that the best solution was to simplify the Community Hub.
Our blog will be at the center of the new design. Lee Schlesinger will continue to provide his interesting stories about projects on SourceForge. We’ll also use the blog to communicate with you about ongoing development on the site, so you can keep up with changes as they come. As we push out enhancements and new features, we’ll use the blog to let you know about them.
You can also follow us on Twitter for real-time engineering updates.
The event calendar and forums have been removed. We felt that these features weren’t contributing enough to the site, and they caused information to be spread out in too many places. We think the overall experience will be improved for everyone by focusing the discussion in fewer places.
We are committed to an open process, and community involvement has always been a critical part of SourceForge. If you have any feedback or questions, you can always contact our development team directly by submitting a ticket, sending an email, or jumping on IRC. We look forward to building and improving SourceForge with your help.