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EdwardH - 23 Oct 2005 19:20 GMT

My latest project, an ftp server ( http://iftpd.sf.net ) is sorta
complete and I'm now wondering how do I tell people that the program
exists? I'm sure there must be more than just one person in the whole,
entire world, that would appreciate it.

The question is, how do people find out about software?

PS: I've released it as OSS, so I'm not making any cash off of it, but I
figures y'all have already figured that out.

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Andrew Thompson - 24 Oct 2005 01:33 GMT

> My latest project, an ftp server ( http://iftpd.sf.net ) is sorta
> complete and I'm now wondering how do I tell people that the program
> exists?

How much effort are you prepared to put in?

If your hear any question on ('where do I get an
open-source FTP server?') you can link to your server
as the answer

Either way, two points.
- OSS doen not actually mean free, and if it is free,
I think you should mention that (perhaps in brackets,
like an afterthought).

- OSS often does much better when it is being delivered
from a site that hosts a lot of OSS. There are a number
of them, including SourceForge, and one I heard the other
night (name slips my mind at this instant) that specialised
in development tools.

..just some thoughts.

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Roedy Green - 24 Oct 2005 03:39 GMT

>My latest project, an ftp server ( http://iftpd.sf.net ) is sorta
>complete and I'm now wondering how do I tell people that the program
>exists? I'm sure there must be more than just one person in the whole,
>entire world, that would appreciate it.

The very first thing you have to do is prepare a PAD file for it and
submit it to all the download sites.

See http://mindprod.com/jgloss/pad.html

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Chris Smith - 24 Oct 2005 17:33 GMT

> My latest project, an ftp server ( http://iftpd.sf.net ) is sorta
> complete and I'm now wondering how do I tell people that the program
> exists?

Last I looked (which was a number of years ago) http://freshmeat.net/
was the place to go for that sort of thing.

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