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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. Oh come on... by Simulant · · Score: 0, Redundant

        Submitting this to /. is like putting up a billboard that says only, "Please check out my product."

    If you'd said what it was you'd be half way there.

  2. Where did /. go? by Joucifer · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Shouldn't there be about 9 links in there to your project of shameless self promotion?

    1. Re:Where did /. go? by Random+Destruction · · Score: 0, Redundant

      see here

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  3. Re:Seriously by bjourne · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Only if you give a shit about what slashdotters say. If you develop a genuinely useful free software project you deserve the free advertising for the time you've spent.

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  4. Sex by sexconker · · Score: 0, Redundant

    It sells.

  5. Re:Talk to your users by fishybell · · Score: 0, Redundant

    spot on. no one wants to commit to using software that will disappear if you get hit by a bus.

    ...or if you murder your wife.

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