- Most open source projects are already receiving free hosting (and from various sources) and don’t want to promote only one–or any

- Most open source projects aren’t in the business of making money. They’re about providing high-quality, community-driven software. However, if they do plan on making money, it’s most likely going to come from another revenue stream other than advertising.

- It’s really hard (especially with “non-commercially-backed” open source projects) to get in touch with the right decision makers for things like this.

I’m sure WHB would offer an open source project hosting.

All of the OS projects I’ve approached have one-click installs through WHB.

I’d love to sponsor events, but you have to admit, from a sponsor’s perspective, an affiliate setup is more attractive.

Am I assuming too much here in terms of open source projects understanding the value of funding?

Have you tried giving them another incentive to work with you? How about offering them hosting? Maybe making sure that WebHostingBuzz can support a full install of each of – or any particular CMS that you’re courting?

Another tack might be giving them a different type of monetary incentive. Maybe tell them some ideas of what they can do with the money.

Hope this was helpful.

With many of these projects it’s a single person or two with day jobs, perhaps also going to school and in their spare time they rolled out an app to the open source community. My experience dealing with many of them has been that it just takes time to hear back from them. I’m trying to give some projects free press exposure in Linux Journal and even that can sometimes take many weeks to get a response to.

So I guess all I can say is “it’s not just you”. They’re good people though for sure.

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