Open Source Community Awards and Recognition

SourceForge is an open source software community resource dedicated to helping open source projects be as successful as possible. We thrive on community collaboration to help us create a premiere resource for open source software development and distribution. With the tools we provide, developers on SourceForge have created over 500,000 software projects; we host millions of registered users. Our popular directory connects nearly 20 million monthly users with all of these open source projects and serves more than 2.6 million downloads a day.

SourceForge recognizes open source projects for their contributions to the open source ecosystem and software community. The awards that SourceForge bestows upon popular and exceptional open source projects are listed below.

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Rising Star

The Rising Star badge is awarded to open source projects that have reached the milestone of 100 monthly downloads for the first time.

Community Choice

The Community Choice badge is awarded to open source projects that have reached the milestone of 10,000 total downloads.

SourceForge Favorite

The SourceForge Favorite badge is awarded to open source projects that have reached the milestone of 2,000 monthly downloads for the first time.

Community Leader

The Community Leader badge is awarded to open source projects that have reached the milestone of 50,000 total downloads.

Open Source Excellence

The Open Source Excellence badge is awarded to open source projects that have reached the milestone of 100,000 total downloads, or 10,000 monthly downloads for the first time.