~Promote & Develop Interest for Other People to Use Open Source Software~

### Unlike proprietary off-the-shelf software, which comes with restrictive copyright licenses, open-source software can be given away for no charge. This means that its creators cannot require each user to pay a license fee to fund development. Instead, a number of alternative models for funding its development have emerged.

###  Launch pad provides repository hosting, use it even if you're not hosting anything else there.

###  Blog about your software, show screenshots. People love screenshots.

###  Hire a designer to make a distinctive style sheet.

###  Pay lots of attention to the web design of your site. Be stylish, it really helps.

###  Launch advertisement that shows the advantages of Open Source Software to the public.

###  Provides free courses to students or lecturers to explain how to use the software. For example : OpenOffice.

###  The software developer should be facilitating the installation of all the ways Open Source software so people do not experience difficulty.

###  Software can be developed as a consulting project for one or more customers. The customers pay to direct the developers efforts : to have bugs prioritized and fixed or features added. Companies or independent consultants can also charge for training, installation, technical support, or customization of the software.

###  Another approach to funding is to provide the software freely, but sell licenses to proprietary add-ons such as data libraries. For instance, an open-source CAD program may require parts libraries which are sold on a subscription or flat-fee basis. Open-source software can also promote the sale of specialized hardware that it interoperates with, as in the case of the Asterisk telephony software, developed by a manufacturer of PC telephony hardware.

Suggestion name(link) of blog and forums that discuss about Open Source : 

http://www.cmsreview.com/Forums/OpenSource.html

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source?tag=mantle_skin;content

http://www.phpbb.com/

http://www.opensourceinitiative.net/

http://vanillaforums.org/