2010/1/18 Daniel Bump <[email protected]>: > > Raphaël Giudici wrote: > >> I contacted the FSF to talk about the possible creation of an open >> source real time Go server backed up by the FSF. According to John >> Sullivan, they are interested by such project and advised me to get in >> touch with your team. > > Creating the code-base for a Go server is a miniscule part of > the work involved. Running a Go server is a full-time job, > and by full time, I mean 24 hours a day, 365 days a > year. This is a business, not a hobby, and not an easy one to > make profitable. There *have* to be admins on the server at > all times and they have to deal with disputes and all kinds > of disruptive behavior. Unless you never sleep, you will have > to recruit and keep admins who will have to either be paid or > be committed and responsible volunteers.
I don't know the proverb in english, but in french we would say you are "selling the bear pelt before you got him killed". I didn't understand the answer from the FSF as : "we are going to run a go server", but, and it is the way I asked the question : "Are you interested in the building of a go server ?". That way, anyone could host a small server for a go club, a group of friends, or try to start another major go server if he wishes to. (I don't. I have several great ideas to make the absolute best go server possible, but well .... ;-) Dave is absolutely right : I come empty handed in the hope that some coding guru slash manager slash leader would find the project entertaining. Which is not very realistic. Best Regards, Raph -- Raphaël Giudici phone : +33 (0)6 32 56 14 85 mail : [email protected] jabber : [email protected] _______________________________________________ gnugo-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnugo-devel
