I know that this issue has been discussed here on HN in extenso, but again: my situation is different, because I am not a professional counting on the bigs bucks to come. The reason I am so much concerned is that I want to share my work as an open source, free project, not only for my private satisfaction, but primarily so that others would be able to use them or possibly continue to build them if I come across some hard problems I can't technically overcome - without needing to completely refacture/re-write the code.

Any suggestions?

Would anyone take me under his mentorship (maybe a skype once every two-months?) to help me make the right architectural decisions?

And finally - I am a bit scepticall about using GitHub. Isn't it a bit of an overkill for a one man project? Is it really the only right way to get noticed these days?

Best regards,