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by Rimon Barr

Spyce is available free of charge, with full source code. However, like any open-source project, Spyce is only as active as its community. There is no underlying organization or momentum, except that which is provided by its user base. Therefore, if you like Spyce and want to see it succeed, then please help! Here are a number of ways, depending your capabilities and resources, for you to contribute back to the Spyce community.

Mailing Lists

The Spyce mailing lists is the place where users ask questions regarding installation, configuration and usage. If you know the answer to a question that appeared on a mailing list, please do not hesistate to send a message to the list in answer. Alternatively, if you are doing something interesting with Spyce, you might want to publicize it to other Spyce users: they may find it useful, and may even be able to assist you. Your help in making the mailing lists a place where it would be easy to find answers and other useful Spyce-related information is much appreciated.

  • spyce-announce list - (archive) (subscribe)
    Announcements of new releases and other important Spyce-related information. Low volume - less than 1 to 2 messages per week.
  • spyce-users list - (archive) (subscribe)
    Spyce-related questions, answers and discussion. Note that annoucements are not cross-posted.

"Spyce Powered" campaign

If you use and like Spyce, you can also help broaden the Spyce community by placing one of the logos below on your website, with a link to the Spyce site. Code snippets are provided so that you can simply copy-and-paste into your HTML:

Logo HTML code
<a href="http://spyce.sourceforge.net">
  <img width=120 height=50 border=0 
    src="http://spyce.sourceforge.net/spycepow.gif">
</a>
<a href="http://spyce.sourceforge.net">
  <img width=72 height=32 border=0 
    src="http://spyce.sourceforge.net/spycepow2.gif">
</a>
<a href="http://spyce.sourceforge.net">
  <img width=30 height=36 border=0 
    src="http://spyce.sourceforge.net/spyce.gif">
</a>
<a href="http://spyce.sourceforge.net">
  <img width=134 height=32 border=0 
    src="http://spyce.sourceforge.net/spycepow3.gif">
</a>

The very cute Spyce mascot is called 'Pilpel', which means pepper (as in the vegetable and the spice) in Hebrew. It's a specially-shaped pepper that reminds one of a Python snake. Pilpel was designed and drawn by Natalya Katsnelson.

Direct assistance

If you would like get your hands dirty, there are things for you to do:

  • report bugs and help in their resolution
  • send new code or patches (but please make sure that new code does not break things that work)
  • write more documentation, more examples and demos

If you would like to join the Spyce project as a developer, documenter, publicist, or in some other capacity, just fire an email.

Indirect assistance

And, even if you do not have the time or know-how to assist development directly, you can still help. Using Spyce could be saving you notable amounts of time and money, so maybe this piece of software is worth more to you than its zero price. You can:

  • sponsor the development of new features
  • compensate for past efforts
  • donate just because you like the project
Please contact to arrange any donations.

Spyce evangelism

Making Spyce more popular means more support from the user community, more bug reports, more ideas, and more people. All of this can boost Spyce development and bug fixing activities, improve the quality of support provided by the community in mailing lists, etc. Here are some evangelism ideas:

  • place links to the Spyce site at your Web pages
  • rate Spyce in software directories such as freshmeat.net and OSDir.com
  • recommend Spyce in web forums, mailing lists, etc.
  • write Spyce reviews for web sites, printed magazines, etc.
  • tell your friends

Your help in spreading the word and broadening the community is appreciated!


© 2002-08 Rimon Barr
email: rimon@acm.org
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