Where can I advertise an open source project?

Question

I have started an open source project and was wondering how I would best go about inviting people to work on the project. SourceForge is great but didn't fit the needs of the project. Any ideas?

Answer 1

Announcing it on FreshMeat never hurts.

Answer 2

Codeplex might be something to look into

Answer 3

Throw it onto Github?

Answer 4

You could start tweeting about it! Also, write about the project in InfoQ.

Answer 5

Assuming the project relates to a specific topic then there is usually a mailing list or set of webpages that relates to this. So, for example, if the project was primarily about XML you could announce it on xml-dev. If about chemistry use the blue-obelisk mailing list, and so on. Mailing lists are a good way of attracting general interest which may increase your user base as well as your developer base.

Answer 6

You could use Stack Overflow's Open Source Advertising:

http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/31913/open-source-advertising-sidebar-1h-2010