On 20/05/16 18:49, Daniel Pocock wrote: > > > There have been a couple of threads on the list this week about the > creation of individual teams to manage some FSFE services and the type > of service that the system-hackers are offering to provide. > > One of the bigger issues associated with all this is the question of > whether FSFE's IT model can be replicated by other organizations > (including non-profits) of similar size. > > The default strategy for many organizations today seems to start with a > Facebook group and graduate to Google Apps, possibly outsourcing a web > site where money is spent on appearance and dodgy SEO services rather > than development of any real functionality. > > This brings me to a few questions: > > - should it be a priority for FSFE's IT strategy to be easily > replicated, so that we can say to other organizations that they can > follow the FSFE sysadmin wiki and they will be up and running in a few > hours? > > - are there other small non-profit organizations that already > demonstrate best practice for volunteer-run IT with free software and > should we build a list of them? For example, is FSF's or Debian's > strategy considered suitable for other organizations to replicate? > > - going beyond the scope of Linux distributions like Debian, there are > solutions like ClearOS[1] that aim to provide a turn-key office/small > business solution, is anybody maintaining a list of these and would it > be more productive for FSFE to move onto something like that and > individual volunteers (such as the blog team) would contribute to that > project? >
Another one in this category is Turnkey Linux, based on Debian jessie https://www.turnkeylinux.org/ _______________________________________________ Discussion mailing list Discussion@fsfeurope.org https://mail.fsfeurope.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion