Re: [Ilugc] My sourceforge experience

2012-04-12 Thread kenneth gonsalves
On Thu, 2012-04-12 at 14:14 +0530, Girish Venkatachalam wrote: > Overall sourceforge is a good way/place to showcase your > project/creation and you can > use that to create more links and traffic to your website. I stopped using sourceforge several years back - at that time it was slow, buggy a

[Ilugc] My sourceforge experience

2012-04-12 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
One often tends to misspell sourceforge as sourceforget. ;) Anyway if any of you can start some open source project which become successful over a period of time it is a matter of pride, fame and in some rare cases also money. In my case LiveUSB project was featured in linuxtoday and it has bee

Re: [Ilugc] My sourceforge experience

2009-08-21 Thread Siva Chandran P
> cool - congratulations. One caveat - a lot of us have moved away from > sourceforge to places like bitbucket, google code or github - the main reason > is that sf is very slow and it is complicated to set up and maintain something > there. Although the interface is much better now, I personally f

Re: [Ilugc] My sourceforge experience

2009-08-20 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Friday 21 Aug 2009 11:06:34 am Girish Venkatachalam wrote: > http://spamcheetah.sf.net > > I have also published it in freshmeat. > > By and large the experience was very enjoyable more from a technical > standpoint than anything else. > > The tools that sf.net gives for uploading to their websi

Re: [Ilugc] My sourceforge experience

2009-08-20 Thread Manvendra Bhangui
On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 11:06 AM, Girish Venkatachalam < girishvenkatacha...@gmail.com> wrote: > I am not able to guess how many of you nurse a dream to create an open > source project. I guess many of us dream. But somehow due to work and other pressure it never gets done > There is a lot of

[Ilugc] My sourceforge experience

2009-08-20 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
Dear all, I am not able to guess how many of you nurse a dream to create an open source project. There is a lot of satisfaction one can get by creating an open source program. But the real challenge here is getting a massive userbase and getting a lot of people to use your creation. I have done