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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 <[email protected]> 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:* [email protected] [mailto: > [email protected]] *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 > > -- > > Daniel-Constantin Mierla > > www.twitter.com/miconda -- www.linkedin.com/in/miconda > > Kamailio World Conference - May 8-10, 2017 - www.kamailioworld.com > > > -- > _____________________________________________________________________ > -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- > > asterisk-biz mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz >
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