I very much like the idea of paying SAC administrators for all the great work they do. And setting up an OSGeo git infrastructure (git+trac, gitlab, or ???) is right in line with our mission statement of our foundation.
I'm enjoying where this discussion is going. I don't think we have settled on a consensus yet but the conversion is very enlightening. Mike ---- Michael Smith OSGeo Foundation Treasurer treasu...@osgeo.org -----Original Message----- From: Discuss <discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org> on behalf of Sandro Santilli <s...@keybit.net> Date: Sunday, October 18, 2015 at 6:18 AM To: Andreas Hocevar <andreas.hoce...@gmail.com> Cc: OSGeo Discussions <discuss@lists.osgeo.org> Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo guidelines for code hosting ? Resent-From: Michael Smith <michael.sm...@usace.army.mil> >On Sun, Oct 18, 2015 at 09:07:52AM +0200, Andreas Hocevar wrote: > >> please keep an alternative in mind: pay for an OSGeo Github account for >> projects that want to use Git. Will burn some money, but won't burn out >> volunteers who have to keep OSGeo's own infrastructure up and running. >>See >> BlockedBlockedhttps://github.com/locationtechBlocked as an example. > >Please keep another alternative in mind: pay OSGeo system administrators. > >Will burn some money, but won't burn out volunteers who have to keep >OSGeo's own infrastructure up and running. > >Even if I understand that the cost for OSGeo sysadmins might be higher >than the cost for a GitHub account, I can also see that the money >spent on SAC might result in indirect benefit for free software tools >(I'm sure SAC people do file tickets for the tools they use) while >those spent on GitHub could only result in benefit for the proprietary >software used to run that service. > >--strk; >_______________________________________________ >Discuss mailing list >Discuss@lists.osgeo.org >BlockedBlockedhttp://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discussBlocked _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss