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I mean this with all love an respect, in the spirit of _constructive_ criticism: It never ceases to amaze me how poorly open source projects promote themselves. I tried to figure out what Infinispan is. I read every word on the linked page. I clicked several of the links from there, and read the first few paragraphs on each of those pages. All I could figure out is it's something to do with Groovy. Aren't you interested in promoting your project to people who don't already know what it is? For some reason I see this problem constantly - I'm not sure if it's insiders talking to insiders, who just aren't that interested in reaching out to "the clueless", or more likely, blindness to the necessities of marketing and promotion. Please consider stealing a play from the industry: figure out a 1-2 sentence way to tell us what your product does and put it at the beginning of every post. Just a suggestion :)

Thanks for your feedback - if you thought it has to do with Groovy then I have completely missed my target. :-)

For the record, Infinispan is an open source data grid platform, written in Java - as mentioned in the first paragraph on the project page (http://www.infinispan.org). I assume you have read this, and the FAQs (http://www.jboss.org/community/wiki/InfinispanFrequentlyAskedQuestions)?

Ah I see now that there is a link to the project page in your sidebar. For the record, I did try clicking the logo at the top. Of course, I can Google it too, which I usually do when I see enough cryptic posts to get interested in an open source project. Here is my point though - if you just put the dang description in your dzone post (or even the post you link to) you will promote your project much better. You lose probably 90-99% of folks at each stage, if people don't know what they're looking at. The number of people who are willing to take 3 steps (read the dzone description, read the linked page, and then find the correct link to the project page) when they don't know what Infinispan is no doubt quite small. Imagine how many more people you could reach if you assume your audience is as clueless as me (har). I am honestly not singling you out here - as I mentioned I see this all the time, specifically with open source projects. I personally want to learn what more of these projects are about and would love to see the FOSS movement do better promotion in general.

Fair comment, duly noted.