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All;
My company has written a multi-tenant, multi-user single fax and fax broadcasting system for Asterisk that we want to release as open source. The package seems to be popular with ITSP’s. The package is extremely feature-rich and has been available for several years now so it has a stable code base. A list of some of its features can be found here: http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/VoIP+Business+Solutions. So my question is this, what are the best ways to publicize the product now that it's open source?
Thanks;
John V.

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[afshin9 at gmail.com]

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.


Disclaimer: I am NOT affiliated with Github or Atlasian in anyways. these are all my personal opinions.



AFShin Seysan
www.Callynx.com
afshin at collynx .dot com






On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 11:31 AM, Tech Support <asterisk@voipbusiness.us (asterisk@voipbusiness.us)> wrote:

[miconda at gmail.com]

On 17/01/2017 21:01, AFShin Seysan wrote:

[sidney at oncallcentra...]

+1 for GitHub. We used gitlab internally for about two years. Works well overall, but they put out updates about every 18 seconds and it becomes a lot of work to keep it fully up-to-date. Recently decided to throw in the towel and move everything to Amazon’s CodeCommit. Zero issues so far and free for first 5 devs.

[asterisk at voipbusine...]

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@lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-biz-bounces@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

[tahir at ictinnovation...]

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@voipbusiness.us (asterisk@voipbusiness.us)> wrote: