Hi.

I am pretty sure that having a Facebook page for deal.II is a bad
idea. Facebook requires authorization -- it is not open, but a private
part of the Internet. It is possible and even inevitable that
deal.II's Facebook page will contain discussions important enough.
These discussions will not be searchable nor accessible in an open
way.

Thanks, regards,
  Dima.

P.S.

The proposal for not to have a deal.II page in Facebook follows very
clear speaches that touch the subject by E.Moglen and R.Stallman.
These of Moglen can be found in WikiSource
(http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Author:Eben_Moglen, just read/hear the
currently latest ;), these of Stallman - on http://www.gnu.org.


On 6/28/10, Guido Kanschat <[email protected]> wrote:
> Dear friends,
>
> as of today, deal.II has a page on facebook. Feel free to look it up and
> join us there!
>
> While this group is not intended to replace the mailing list, it might
> serve as a less formal forum for deal.II users to get to know each other.
>
> Best,
> Wolfgang and Guido
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