If you ever wondered what I’m doing if I’m not trying to set up BOINC projects, here is the answer:

I’m coding websites and online shops as a freelancer in my spare time. Till now I’ve stored my code in a local svn repository, which is very risky in my eyes. If my hard drive gets corrupted or I can’t access my Windows© system all my work is gone. So I needed something with svn or cvs support like SourceForge.net but with closed source support also. So I stumbled upon Origo.

Based in Switzerland and run by the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich this website has all I was searching for. There is a svn repository, wiki pages, ticket system (bugtracker), forums and a blog for each project. You can decide whether your projects are open or closed source, you can even switch from closed to open source once you’re ready for the public. If you want to set up your own Origo at your company or at home you can do so because Origo itself is Open Source software.

I already have two projects there. One place to develop plugins for phpComasy (a Swiss CMS) and one to develop a fork of the xt-Commerce online shop called amwCommerce (customized shop for Amway-Partners).