In this post I’ll show you how to create your own GitHub-style ribbons for launching open source projects on OpenShift.
The popular “Fork me on GitHub” ribbons provide a great way to raise awareness for your favorite open source projects. Now, the same technique can be used to instantly launch clones of your application, helping to rapidly grow your community!
Take advantage of OpenShift’s web-based app creation workflow – streamlining installation, hosting, and management of instances – by crafting a workflow URL that contains information about your project.
Ribbons allow Open Source projects to quickly go viral on OpenShift
After crafting your project’s OpenShift app creation workflow URL, make the process easy to find by including an open source ribbon in copies of your application code.
Just add the following HTML code to your application, substituting in your own workflow URL:
Run me on OpenShift