Tips & Hints for
Shareware/Freeware Authors

Written by Matthias Kahlert, mkahlert@kagi.com
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General Information: Organisations

You need contacts to some other shareware authors? Then you should take a look at this organisations. They have many members and they can offer you great services like technical help and support. Just take a look at them and compare their services.

USA ASP - Association of Shareware Professionals
Description: The Association of Shareware Professionals was formed to strengthen the future of shareware (user supported software) as an alternative to commercial software. Its members, all of whom subscribe to a code of ethics, are committed to the concept of shareware as a method of marketing.

The ASP's primary goals are:
  • To inform users about shareware programs and about shareware as a method of distributing and marketing software

  • To encourage broader distribution of shareware through user groups and disk dealers who agree to identify and explain the nature of shareware

  • To assist members in marketing their software

  • To provide a forum through which ASP members may communicate, share ideas, and learn from each other; and

  • To foster a high degree of professionalism among shareware authors by setting programming, marketing and support standards for ASP members to follow.
E-Mail: 76635.1670@compuserve.com
Internet: http://www.asp-shareware.org
Modified: 14. May 1997 (A)

D OASE - European Shareware Authors Organisation
Description: OASE is a organisation of European Shareware authors. OASE helps Shareware authors on distributing their software, development support, beta-testings, free homepages, etc. For more details please take a look at their server.
E-Mail: eschen@t-online.de
Internet: http://members.aol.com/wwwoase
Modified: 14. May 1997 (A)

USA Shareware Author Network (SAN)
Description: The Shareware Author Network is an association of shareware authors from all around the world. There are more than 1700 members, they have many discussion forums, newsletters, etc. And: it's free!
E-Mail: snetwork@bsoftware.com
Internet: http://www.bsoftware.com/snetwork.htm
Modified: 9. September 1997 (U)

D Shareware Autoren Vereinigung (SAVE)
Description: S-A-VE is a German association of shareware authors. They regularly release a CD-ROM full of shareware and freeware applications.
Membership at S-A-VE is free, just take a look at their homepage.
E-Mail: webmaster@s-a-ve.com
Internet: http://www.s-a-ve.com
Modified: 9. September 1997 (U)

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