[asterisk-biz] Releasing software as open source

[Tahir Almas]

We  have  experience in  open source projects  like  http://www.ictfax.org
and  will share  our  experience  with you .

Do not use commercial  advertisement platform  to promote   open source
project.

Do on-page  SEO  of   your  site  with  open source and free  keywords

Place your  source code  at  both sourceforge.net  and  github

Create  a  forum  for open source  community  and provide  support to
visitors  .

Press release  /  News   at  voip-info.org  , asterisk.org  ( you already
did ) and  other related sites .

that is  all and rest  open source  community  and  google search engine
will do  themselves  and you need  not to  worry about it

regards


*Tahir Almas*

Managing Partner
ICT Innovations
http://www.ictinnovations.com
Leveraging open source in ICT



On Fri, Jan 20, 2017 at 8:18 PM, Tech Support <asterisk at voipbusiness.us>
wrote:

> These are all great answers and are very useful, but my question is this.
> What's the best way to “get the word out” that our server is being open
> sourced? What would you guys do if you were doing this?
>
> Thanks a Million;
>
> John V.
>
>
>
> *From:* asterisk-biz-bounces at lists.digium.com [mailto:
> asterisk-biz-bounces at lists.digium.com] *On Behalf Of *Daniel-Constantin
> Mierla
> *Sent:* Tuesday, January 17, 2017 03:27 PM
> *To:* Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion
> *Subject:* Re: [asterisk-biz] Releasing software as open source
>
>
>
> On 17/01/2017 21:01, AFShin Seysan wrote:
>
> nowadays, github.com is probably the most popular place for any source
> code.
>
>
>
> You can also use Atlasian products, which for opensource would be free,
> you can use Confluence for documentation, Bitbucket for source control and
> Jira for Issue Tracking.
>
> Let me know if you have any questions.
>
>
> Github.com is indeed popular and serves the most needs of dealing with
> open source project development and collaboration (issue tracker, pull
> requests, reviews, etc...). But of course, you don't have full control and
> sometimes you reach some limitations. At kamailio we had to write some
> script) to hook into their APIs because we wanted a special email format
> for notifications as well as keep a mirror in near real time (for who is
> interested to read more, I published it as OSS:
> https://github.com/miconda/gitpushub). Another limitation is not offering
> private repository without paying. As an OSS project, sometimes you want to
> keep few admin scripts private.
>
> Bitbucket offers private repos for free. I haven't used it much and not
> integrated with Jira/Confluence. So it might not be the case there, but I
> find it a hassle not to have the issue tracker, version control, review
> system in the same portal for an OSS project -- it can add overhead to
> administration, taking cycles from other OSS activities. We did it in the
> past and I would not return there. The story can be different if you have
> dedicated sysadmin resources.
>
> Gitlab.com is another alternative for hosting OSS project -- I haven't
> used it, so no first hand experience. But Gitlab can be also self-hosted
> (the suite of tools used there is open source), however it is seems to
> require a dedicated system for an easy installation and maintenance, be
> safe to not break other services.
>
> gogs.io is a lighter version for self hosting git repositories and get
> the look and many of the features a la github (issue tracker, wiki, ...).
>
> Cheers,
> Daniel
>
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>
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