Previously Rob Levin wrote: > I think the Debian project benefits from the cross- fertilization, > from the exposure to other groups and other projects.
I'm not sure we get cross-fertilization from being on OPN. It is convenient to have lots of free software related channels on a single network but then again pretty much all clients have decent multi-server support these days. > But the Internet boom is over, and it's harder to allocate the time > when there are not so many employers willing to give people time to > work on community projects. It forces people to be more realistic. Networks there were big before the boom don't seem to be affected as they already had a proper structure in place. More recent networks like OPN need to figure out how to survive. > Our parent organization, Peer-Directed Projects Center, has just started up. > We need a small operational budget just to have the resources to proceed. This is what I don't understand. As far as I know the three largest irc networks (IRCnet, Undernet and EFnet) are completely run on a voluntary basis. They don't have a non-profit to support them and do not ask for donations. And they are a lot bigger (over 80k users, while freenode has just a bit under 7k according to http://irc.netsplit.de/networks/ ). So how come that freenode, a relatively small network, needs so much money? Wichert. -- _________________________________________________________________ /[EMAIL PROTECTED] This space intentionally left occupied \ | [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.wiggy.net/ | | 1024D/2FA3BC2D 576E 100B 518D 2F16 36B0 2805 3CB8 9250 2FA3 BC2D |
