Sure, but when you set up the project, wherever you host it, you're going to have to choose an SCM before you have any community. If you want to provide the lea

Sure, but when you set up the project, wherever you host it, you're going to have to choose an SCM before you have any community. If you want to provide the least friction for potential contributors, you'll want to to use the SCM most commonly used today in open source, namely Git. Add'l note: Other hosts, BitBucket, Google Code, etc. also offer Git hosting. So, yes, choose whatever host you want, but choose and SCM that will make it easy for folks to contribute.