FOSSwire is an online industry journal covering the latest trends in free and open source software.

Our timeless content is ideal for advertisers looking to make a comittment in a market composed of highly educated, affluent, and technology-savvy individuals.

Advertising options

As we are distributed through several channels, we are able to offer a number of different methods of advertising. Primarily, we offer:

  • Google AdSense on FOSSwire.com
  • 125x125px buttons at FOSSwire.com
  • Text advertising in our RSS feed

Currently, FOSSwire is distributed daily to over 1100 individuals via RSS and email subscriptions. Countless more visit the FOSSwire.com website directly, many of these being users who visit via a SERP looking for answers to their technology problems.

Alexa characterises our reach over the past three months as a growth of 1,100%, and rising. Our traffic rank has risen over one million positions in the past three months alone, and it is still rising. Our visitors come from countries around the world and speak a multitude of languages, but they are united by a passion for open source software.

Does this sound like an intriguing advertising climate? Please contact Chris Van Patten to discuss more details about FOSSwire advertising.

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Further details about FOSSwire follow, inclding sample posts and short biographies of our writers.

Sample posts

The following are a few select posts from the FOSSwire archives that will help you gain a sense of our writing styles, content, and presentation.

About our writers

Peter Upfold

Peter Upfold is a technology enthusiast interested in Linux, Windows, Mac OS X, cross-platform applications, web applications, web development, Web 2.0, blogging, podcasting, in fact, just about anything tech. Doing quite a bit of PHP in his spare time, he has written the excellent WPGet for displaying Wordpress blog posts elsewhere on your site or even on another site. WPGet was nominated for the September 2006 Innovation Award at PHP Classes.

Peter lives in North Hampshire in the south of England and is an alternative platform advocate, running a Kubuntu desktop, a CentOS server and also owning a 13″white MacBook running Mac OS X.

Jacob Peddicord

Jacob Peddicord is a web developer and programmer. He likes to work on random projects, and usually will do any project assigned to him. He is a Linux/Ubuntu lover, and helps out with running certain areas of the Ubuntu Forums.

Jacob lives in Ohio in the midwestern United States. He has a Dell laptop as his primary system and thinks Beryl is a waste of CPU cycles.