How Do You Market Your FOSS Project? | Linux Today

How Do You Market Your FOSS Project?

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Aug 25, 2007

[ Thanks to D.C.
Parris
for this link. ]

“Blue GNU has launched a simple poll aimed at understanding
whether and how FOSS projects market themselves. The 4-week project
is an effort to help the community understand marketing and its
impact on the progress of various projects.

“Blue GNU is polling FOSS developers over the next 4 weeks to
find out whether and how they market their projects. The poll seeks
to find out how many projects actively market themselves and how
many rely solely on word-of-mouth advertising as their whole
marketing campaign…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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