List of free software project directories

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A list of websites with their own Wikipedia articles that list free software projects. These directories and repositories of free software differ from software hosting facilities (or software forges) in the number of features they offer and they type of collaboration they are designed to promote. For a listing of free software hosting projects, see Comparison of open source software hosting facilities.

General directories

Name Website Description/focus
Apache Software Foundation apache.org Mostly Java
Nevon Projects nevonprojects.com C#,VB, Asp.net, Java, Android
Open Source Scripts opensourcescripts.com
PROEXPLUS www.proexplus.com
Free Software Directory directory.fsf.org
Open Hub (Formerly: Ohloh) www.openhub.net
Programmer2Programmer www.programmer2programmer.net
Libre Projects libreprojects.net Web platforms & software as a service
jWork.Org jwork.org/soft/ List of general software programs organized by categories
Open Source Software Directory www.opensourcesoftwaredirectory.com Provides a list of open source software organized by categories.
HTML Free Codes www.htmlfreecodes.com Provides many html codes for free.
SyntaxSeed syntaxseed.com Small collection of open source code, themes & plugins.
Bala Swecha www.balaswecha.in Free software initiative by the Swecha for the Indian government school education Provides a various free software education tools.

Programming language specific directories

Name Website Description/focus
CPAN cpan.org Perl
CTAN ctan.org TeX
CRAN cran.r-project.org R
OpenSymphony www.opensymphony.com Java
JBoss jboss.com Enterprise Java
PEAR pear.php.net PHP
Node Packaged Modules npmjs.org Node.js
Python Package Index pypi.python.org Python
JSAN openjsan.org JavaScript
Hackage hackage.haskell.org Haskell
Planet planet.racket-lang.org Racket
RubyGems rubygems.org Ruby

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