I just received an e-mail this morning saying my presentation, Marketing FOSS, has been accepted, and I responded to confirm. The Ohio Linuxfest will run September 27th-30th in Columbus, OH. I will be presenting on Saturday, the 29th. I don't yet have the schedule, but you can bet I'll be there.

My discussion will address the fact that marketing/promoting play an important role in growing a project and help FOSS project teams discover some solid opportunities to further spread the word about their projects beyond simple word-of-mouth. In most cases, it is a simple matter to increase the number of mouths that can spread the word about your project. The problem is there are many high-quality projects that are overlooked because they rely solely on word-of-mouth and make no effort to promote themselves. And no, you don't necessarily have to have money to market your project.