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How To Spread Word About My FOSS Project?

Posted by timothy on from the luck-plays-a-role dept.

An anonymous reader writes "I'm in a bit of a bind with an open source web software project of mine. It's a very small project that I've been developing for over three years. By now it's got a promising feature set, but very few users and virtually no community around it. The problem is that people I have asked to try it refuse to do so because it doesn't have a thriving community. It's an infinite loop: without users, we won't have a community, and without a community, users aren't coming. So, Slashdot, my question is: how can I build a community and help get the word out about a project led by 2 people and with only 5-6 regulars on our forum and IRC?"

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  1. My suggestions. by Tei · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Have good documentations, screenshots, maybe a video. A good website (cms + nice theme, maybe).
    Then, wen you do big releases, poke the bloggers or news posters about it. People like to read news.
    You can even poke the news-guys if you have something interesting, fun, amazing, to show.

    And wen you give articles to news-guys, make these article very good. avoid spell errors, use your better english, etc.. your text must be perfect. This really help these people, and your opportunities, everyone.

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  2. Re:Talk to your users by adamkennedy · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Last time my project got mentioned on Slashdot, I saw around 50,000 additional downloads for that release.

    So even if it's one-shot, that one-shot can still be big.

  3. Re:Tell us what it's called... by rincebrain · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I'm genuinely curious how you produced an AC's name.

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