Open Source Technology Group

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The Open Source Technology Group (OSTG) describes itself as a "news, collaboration and distribution community for IT and Open Source development, implementation and innovation." OSTG is supported by VA Software and dedicated to the Open Source Initiative. It is an attempt to bring together talent to create software that conforms to the GNU license model promoted by the Free Software Foundation. The former name of the OSTG was OSDN (Open Source Developer Network) until it changed its name in July 2004. Before being acquired by VA, it was known as Andover.net.

The best known websites and projects in OSTG are:

Freshmeat: freshmeat.net
Geocrawler: Geocrawler.com (defunct)
Linux.com: Linux.com
LinuxGram: LinuxGram.com
NewsForge: NewsForge.com
IT Manager's Journal: itmanagersjournal.com

Slash: slashcode.com
Slashdot: slashdot.org
SourceForge: SourceForge.net
Themes.org: themes.org (now themes.freshmeat.net)
ThinkGeek: ThinkGeek.com
DevChannel: devchannel.org

OSTG (then OSDN) dropped Kuro5hin in January 2002 because the news content shifted from technical items to politics, philosophy, the workplace, and other topics of a non-technical nature.