Marketing FOSS projects

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Aug 13, 2006 8:02 AM EDT
NewsForge; By Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier and Bruce Byfield
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Why should you market your free and open source software (FOSS) project? After all, your project isn't selling anything. Besides, programmers notoriously don't get along with marketers. Yet a little marketing makes sense for many projects. Listing your project on Freshmeat and SourceForge.net is a good start, but greater efforts let users and organizations know that your code is available, so that they can start using it.

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