about
Uniforge was started 2002 as a student research project of Marius Tolzmann for the course "Dezentrale Systementwicklung am Beispiel GNU/Linux" of the study group "Formal Models, Logic and Programming" (FLP) headed by Prof. Bernd Mahr at the Technical University of Berlin.
It was the attempt to implement the lessons learned by the research activity of Steffen Evers in the field of Open Source Software Development.
Sourceforge was used as an archetype, but Marius decided to rewrite it from the scratch and use Perl instead of PHP.
As the first results were promising FLP dedicated Uniforge its own course in the next term named "Technische Hilfsmittel für dezentrale Systementwicklung".
Thereby Matthias Erche, Thomas Kaschwig, Gregor Suhr, Jörg Küster, Daniel Möller and Kjell Morgenstern joined the project. The result was a first working prototype that was online April 2003. However, after the end of the course the students' attention turned away to other subjects and development was suspended for several years.
In summer 2006 FLP issued three diploma thesis around the project that were supervised by Steffen Evers in order to revive the development:
