<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div><div>We have experience in open source projects like <a href="http://www.ictfax.org">http://www.ictfax.org</a> and will share our experience with you . <br><br></div>Do not use commercial advertisement platform to promote open source project. <br><br></div><div>Do on-page SEO of your site with open source and free keywords <br><br></div>Place your source code at both <a href="http://sourceforge.net">sourceforge.net</a> and github <br><br></div>Create a forum for open source community and provide support to visitors . <br><br></div>Press release / News at <a href="http://voip-info.org">voip-info.org</a> , <a href="http://asterisk.org">asterisk.org</a> ( you already did ) and other related sites . <br><br></div>that is all and rest open source community and google search engine will do themselves and you need not to worry about it <br><br></div>regards<br><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><b>Tahir Almas</b><br><br>Managing Partner<br>ICT Innovations<br><a href="http://www.ictinnovations.com" target="_blank">http://www.ictinnovations.com</a><br>Leveraging open source in ICT<br><br><br></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jan 20, 2017 at 8:18 PM, Tech Support <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:asterisk@voipbusiness.us" target="_blank">asterisk@voipbusiness.us</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div bgcolor="white" link="blue" vlink="purple" lang="EN-US"><div class="m_8654746474197967760WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">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?<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Thanks a Million;<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">John V.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #b5c4df 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext"> <a href="mailto:asterisk-biz-bounces@lists.digium.com" target="_blank">asterisk-biz-bounces@lists.<wbr>digium.com</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:asterisk-biz-bounces@lists.digium.com" target="_blank">asterisk-biz-bounces@<wbr>lists.digium.com</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Daniel-Constantin Mierla<br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, January 17, 2017 03:27 PM<br><b>To:</b> Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [asterisk-biz] Releasing software as open source<u></u><u></u></span></p></div></div><div><div class="h5"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">On 17/01/2017 21:01, AFShin Seysan wrote:<br><br><u></u><u></u></p><div><p class="MsoNormal">nowadays, <a href="http://github.com" target="_blank">github.com</a> is probably the most popular place for any source code. <u></u><u></u></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">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.<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Let me know if you have any questions.<u></u><u></u></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"><br>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: <a href="https://github.com/miconda/gitpushub" target="_blank">https://github.com/miconda/<wbr>gitpushub</a>). Another limitation is not offering private repository without paying. As an OSS project, sometimes you want to keep few admin scripts private.<br><br>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.<br><br>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.<br><br><a href="http://gogs.io" target="_blank">gogs.io</a> is a lighter version for self hosting git repositories and get the look and many of the features a la github (issue tracker, wiki, ...).<br><br>Cheers,<br>Daniel<br><br><u></u><u></u></p><pre>-- <u></u><u></u></pre><pre>Daniel-Constantin Mierla<u></u><u></u></pre><pre><a href="http://www.twitter.com/miconda" target="_blank">www.twitter.com/miconda</a> -- <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/miconda" target="_blank">www.linkedin.com/in/miconda</a><u></u><u></u></pre><pre>Kamailio World Conference - May 8-10, 2017 - <a href="http://www.kamailioworld.com" target="_blank">www.kamailioworld.com</a><u></u><u></u></pre></div></div></div></div><br>--<br>
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