Creating and Hosting project on Google Code

Google provides free hosting for open source projects. Following are the steps to get started with the Google code project hosting:

1. Go to Project Hosting Main Page
   Sign in with your Gmail account
   
   
2. Here one can search through different projects which are already running and some can be joined as well. (one can use this if interested in working with a project which is already there). We will create our own project
   
3. Go to Create New Project Page
   
4. Provide Project name. In my case it is Agent Desktop
   Provide a name with lower case characters. Project name becomes the part of your project's URL
   
5. Provide Summary and Description
   
6. Choose "Subversion" for version control system
   
7. For guidelines on how to choose licence and version control system visit
   http://opensource.org/licenses/category
   https://code.google.com/p/support/wiki/ChoosingAVersionControlSystem
   
8. Further instructions can be found on
   https://code.google.com/p/support/wiki/GettingStarted
   
9. Click "Create Project" and your project is created.
   
10. Go to project and select the source tab. Here a link is mentioned for SVN checkout which should be like http://your-project-name.googlecode.com/svn/trunk