[okfn-discuss] comparison of project hosting including knowledgeforge

Sun Feb 7 13:05:34 UTC 2010

Rufus Pollock wrote:
> I think it would definitely be worth trying to contact Andrew Dalke
> directly and talk to him more.
> 
> One thing to emphasize is that unlike many of the other products
> considered, a lot of effort goes into making KForge good software in
> its own right (rather than being heavily tied to the one specific
> install such as knowledgeforge.net). In particular its easy to install
> KForge yourself so that you don't have to use our particular KForge
> service (http://knowledgeforge.net). As such the number of users
> Knowledgeforge.net is likely to be lower because people can run their
> own autonomous instance!
> 
> I also think it would be worth trying to start getting better stats on
> exactly how many deployed instances are out there :)

It just occurred to me that there are almost as many downloads of the 
last release of KForge from Python Package Index (763) as there are 
registered users on KnowledgeForge (869).

http://www.knowledgeforge.net/
http://pypi.python.org/pypi/kforge/0.17

J.

> 
> Regards,
> 
> Rufus
> 