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A. Promoting Open Source Work on Steemhunt
Steemhunt is a newly established platform whereby hunters submit emerging new and cool products everyday. As such, it creates a big opportunity to promote Open Source Products via the Steemhunt platform.
On this platform, hunters can submit products that cover these 6 distinct categories:
- Web services
- Mobile apps
- API, IT solutions, bots, open sources or other types of software
- Tech gadgets, hardware, IoT/connected/wearable devices
- Games
- Innovative Engineering/Design Products
Ever since Steemhunt started a few months ago, hunters have been diligently seeking out cool products to share with the world. In return, hunters get rewarded based on their hunt ranks of the day. People come to the site daily to download and use these amazing products here.
Just imagine! The Steemhunt platform receives about 300 hunts submissions everyday. These hunts are evaluated and seen by thousands of users who visit this site. Since June, 2018 I've been one of their hunters and submitted cool Open Source Projects to this eager crowd. The results were pheonmenal as I saw people giving me feedback and downloading the Open Source softwares. Much to my pleasure, they are quickly using these Open Source projects which had been unknown to them all this while if it were not for my Steem hunts.
The purpose of this blog is to show you how to increase and grow your audience to promote Open Source projects or softwares via the Steemhunt platform.
B. What is Open Source Hunts?
Many people are not clear on what "Open source" means. Bascially, "open source" means that it is publicly accessible for people to modify and share with others. You will find many of such Open source projects, products, or initiatives on the Github website. The site embraces and celebrates open exchange, collaborative participation, rapid prototyping, transparency, meritocracy, and community oriented development.
When it comes to Open source softwares, the source code is made open to the public so that anyone can inspect, modify, and enhance the codes. This allows many other computer programmers to improve the programs by adding features or fixing application parts that do not work efficiently.
C. Increase an Awareness of Open Source Work to the Steemhunt Audience
It has been more than a month since my involvement on Steemhunt. When you search for "opensource", you will see that @rosatravels is the Top Hunter in this Open Source category.
With the recent new Account Based Voting (ABV) system and Diversity Score put into place, Steemhunt ranks your hunts accordingly. On the right highlighted column, Hunt Scores are listed in descending order showing the top hunts for Open Source work. All these top open source hunts are my submission in June.
The goal is to get your hunt scores as high as possible. Steemhunt ranking is also community based meaning that you need to create an audience who loves your work. This is exactly what I have done. The next step is to grow your audience to look for your hunts everyday. This is truly an effective way to promote Open Source Work. This is how my Open Source hunts gained traction with much visibility and love from the Steemhunt community.
| Open Source | Website | AVB Hunt Score |
|---|---|---|
| Open Learn | 49.99 | |
| Ampache | 41.25 | |
| Screen To Gif | 39.56 |
D. How to Get High AVB Hunt Scores for Open Source Projects?
To have your Open Source hunts ranking high in Steemhunt is not a 'hit and miss' game. I spend a lot of time reading up on the latest Open Source development from different websites.
Here are some tips to get you started to join me to submit Cool Open Source Hunts.
E. 8 Resources to find Cool and New Open Source Products
For a start, gain a wide knowledge of Open Source work from the following websites.
I visit these websites often when I hunt for cool Open Source projects. You need this resource to get you started. To enhance your skills, I will also give you tips for each one of these websites so that you know where to focus when you browse for amazing Open Source Hunts.
1. Discover Cool Open Source Projects on Github Site
- This site is fascinating as you can see Open source world expanding at a phenomenal pace.
- This is the place where you discover developing products and latest technologies.
2. Interact with the Github community via this Forum
- Connect with developers around the world in the GitHub Community Forum to find different category of products.
- Ask questions regarding recent developments of different open source work.
- Discover recent trending repositories in the discussion area.
- Interact directly with GitHub staff to get useful information.
3. Find a Github Expert here and Register
- From experts, you can get more resources regarding Open Source work.
- Different countries have their particular expertise, so find out what is most trending for your country.
4. Keep up to date with the Open Source Conferences and Events via this website.
- Join the local seminars and meetings in your city.
- If the events take place out of town, register to watch their free webinars to get recaps of conferences.
- The latest Open Source trends can be found here.
5. Discover Open Source Organization via the Google Summer of Code
- This site has a wealth of information of the Open Source world.
- Lots of different interesting Open Source softwares are listed here.
- The organizations listed under GSoC are newcomer friendly.
6. Learn More Open Source Products from Gitlab
- Dscover projects, groups and snippets of open source work from Gitlab.
- This is the place where you find details of how open source work gets done.
7. Get More Information on Open Source softwares on Bitbucket.
- Bitbucket gives teams to plan projects, collaborate on code, test and deploy, so you will find many ongoing Open Source initiatives.
- See how professional teams work here to completion of projects and promote their work.
8. Use Explore to curate good collections of Open Source content
- This site is dynamite to find Open Source in any particular fields.
- Stay up to date with the currently trending repositories.
- The newsletter keeps you up-to-date with the recently trending repositories.
Spend time to look for the most unique and cool Open Source work from the above 8 resources.
F. How To Grow your Open Source Audience on Steemhunt
It's been a few weeks that I have succeeded in growing a wide audience to use Open Source projects via my hunts. From this recent post, the Steemhunt community is getting more and more interested in Open Source work because of my involvement in there.
Focus on these 2 aspects for your hunts success:
Know Your audience. Spend time reading their comments. Get to know them and hunt for things that they are looking for.
Highlight specific features to grab their attention so that they can find these Open Source projects useful for them. Tell them directly why you like these features.
Always think in terms of a wide audience.
G. Growing My Steemhunt Audience in these 3 areas:
1. My Audience loves easy-to-use software
My followers crave after free and portable software tools like Screen to Gif.
Special features of Screen to Gif:
- This is a portable small sized application with only 670 KB compressed.
- This application is free from ads.
- All the files can be saved as projects to edit and re-use for other purposes.
- Easy to export as GIF in all 3 content creation modes.
- The software has a clean and consistent interface that is powered by WPF.
- In all the recording, there is a powerful feature whereby the color of your screen can be changed for more animations.
- Best of all, you can edit your GIFS or even VIDEOS from other sources, so this software is not just limited to itself.
Find out more about this Screen-to-Gif development from the Project Owner.
2. My Audience loves Education
Online education has been the latest trend in the last decade. The fact that I am a teacher and an online instructor draws a crowd of educators in to my Steemhunt audience. For this reason, my audience loves Open Learn Education
Special Features of Open Learn:
- The website has such a variety of courses that suits anyone at any age.
- All these new knowledge can be made available to you right in your own home without the need to travel especially if you are a stay at home mother.
- Many of these courses can be downloaded to study offline.
- Opportunities are given for everyone to work together to co-produce the teaching material so that constant improvement is made in these courses.
- More than 900 structured media rich study units with great communication tools are offered free.
- Courses are offered in a variety of format:
articles, activities, eBooks, audio,videos, TV & Radio - The website is constantly updated with the latest courses in all subjects
3. My Audience loves Music
Being a musician, I draw a crowd of music lovers to my Steemhunt audience. When I introduced Ampache to them, they loved it and this hunt got to the top hunt of the day.
Special features of Ampache:
- Imagine of having all your favorite music and video collections all in one place online for easy access. It is unthinkable.
- The file manager allows you to store a large collection of audio and video streaming on the server.
- Share and send music and videos to your friends and family anytime, anywhere.
H. Summing Up - Growing Your Audience
The Steemhunt platform is still quite new and in its developing stage, but already the potential to promote Open Source projects is great there.
Use the 8 variety of resources give to you and tap into the power of finding great Open source hunts for your audience.
In the beginning, your audience is small, just like mine. As your increase your audience, you get to know what their needs are. Find Open Source products to meet their demands and your audience will grow like fire. When your audience uses your hunts, they will further promote these Open Source work to the next crowd. The next crowd will promote further on to another crowd. That is how words get spread from people to people.
Thank you for your attention,
Rosa
@rosatravels
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