A question for those running their own OSS projects

[Behdad Esfahbod]

Hi there,

Just post an announcement to a couple _related_ mailing lists
when you make a major release.  If it's good and it's needed,
people find it pretty soon.

behdad



On Sun, 2 Oct 2005, Madison Kelly wrote:

> Hi all,
>
>    This is probably the proverbial "$64,000 question" but I guess it
> doesn't hurt to ask anyway...
>
>    "How do you promote a new OSS program?"
>
>    As many of you know through my endless questions here I've been
> working on a program for over a year and a half. It's finally nearing
> the first major release and now I have time to turn my attentions to
> "Getting the word out". The problem is, I have no clue how to do that.
>
>    It's on SourceForge and it's pretty high in it's "trove" (category)
> but that doesn't seem too helpful in and of itself (though the services
> provided by SourceForge are great!). I've got a forum up and running on
> the program's website and I am well into the process of writting a
> manual for the program. None of these though actually bring in potential
> users though (hopefully they will let people find credit in the program
> once they show up though).
>
>    So to those of you who have your own semi-popular OSS program (or
> work on one), how did you do it? How long did it take? How do you let
> the community know it's out there?
>
>    As always, thank you all very much!
>
> Madison
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