Lyle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been planning an open source project for years, and I'm hoping to > finally start it in the next few weeks. I'm wondering what's the best > way to start these things? > Grab a .org, open a Sourceforge account??? > It'll be my first open source project, I want to try and get it right. > > Experience, suggestions, dos and don'ts welcome.
Can you host the home page yourself, maybe pulling together resources and listings from other places? Sourceforge isn't free software or open source and has recently changed its privacy terms (but I've not checked exactly how yet). See http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.fsf.europe.discussion/1172 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.fsf.europe.discussion/497 for two lists of alternatives, but many of the hosting platforms come with some licensing baggage or other requirement, which is a pest. I'd really recommend hosting it yourself if you can. I'm a fan of making your git tree available to the world, but as long as you have fairly frequent releases and/or snapshots available somehow, most people will be happy. Good luck! -- MJ Ray (slef) Webmaster for hire, statistician and online shop builder for a small worker cooperative http://www.ttllp.co.uk/ http://mjr.towers.org.uk/ (Notice http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html) tel:+44-844-4437-237 _______________________________________________ BristolBathPM mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.bristolbath.org/mailman/listinfo/bristolbathpm
