Use gitorious instead of github. You give-up a few nice features, but you gain the satisfaction of supporting a company and community that values free cultural works and free software.
Matthew Senate <[email protected]> wrote: >Two things, apologies for the length but I'd **really** appreciate some >feedback (and cc'ing discuss on this): > >*1. Workflow (Process, Knowledge-sharing, Etc) >*At the FCsummit, we observed some patterns of behavior for SFC. Chapters >sometimes have a thriving group of folks, and even a whole network in the >case of NYC's FC Coalition. Others seem to be just an individual or maybe a >few folks, friends possibly roped in to working on events or initiatives. >Given the growth of SFC internationally, and the current processes and >interactions taking place as we speak, it seems that SFC, as an >organization, acts like a network of resources, groups, and individuals. >Folks share projects, ask questions, get advice, give feedback, and all >work on awesome things in the Free/Libre Cultural space. From an >organizational standpoint, the incoming board needs to do some hard >thinking and work to update the purpose, mission, and direction of the org >in the FC movement. Functionally, we already see that this is a network of >valuable resources sharing knowledge amongst themselves and with new folks. >Email is the primary conduit by which this sharing takes place. But there >are other options and opportunities out there. We all see how valuable they >could be! > >The draft I'm presenting (attached) should be somewhat consistent with >SFC's current behavior patterns, but in order for it (or something like it) >to be effective, we need to get folks in this community on the same page >and commit to putting in a bit of time and investment to make it valuable >for ourselves and for new people joining the FC movement. If we build a >knowledge base, we need to be sure those who could contribute are able to >(they have access) and that information can be organized, and categorized >for intuitive and sufficient discovery (e.g. browse and search). There are >various other constraints, but to me, the most critical change needs to be >social--this community needs to adopt a process for working together >because that's what it does--SFC is all about sharing! ;) > >*The workflow - *Work is done by chapters, individuals, the board, and >external contributors. This work can be published anywhere (maybe your >chapter has it's own wiki or blog, awesome!), or it could be unpublished at >this time. At some point, either this work should be posted, in some way, >on the SFC wiki (or at least linked to your chapter's blog for example). >There are two routes. One is to start some email threads with relevant >folks, communicate, and perhaps feedback into the work for some time, but >eventually post to the wiki. The other is to post straight to the wiki, >which can then feedback into further work. > >(Question: Does it seem intuitive that information posted on the wiki can >be related to SFC the organization, individual chapters, or Free Culture >itself? Anyone have thoughts about this?) > >*2. Github* >Okay, on this note, what email address should I use to set up the github >account? > >freeculture is taken, studentsforfreeculture is available, and libreculture >is available. > >I think using [email protected] is a security risk since anyone can >sign up for it and we only really need the account to sign up and create a >few repos. Do we have any admin/info accounts for the freeculture.orgdomain? > >Repos to create: > >FreeCulture.org Wiki >FreeCulture.org Site >FreeCulture.org Support - This may be a convenient place to openly manage >and document work on the site as it exists, then retire it once we move >over to the new site, but it's not totally necessary. Thought it might be >useful for consolidation purposes. > >// Matt > >On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 6:37 PM, Eddie A Tejeda <[email protected]>wrote: > >> As long as we use git and publish the source code, the details on host >> don't concern me too much. >> >> Github is nice though! >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >> On Apr 28, 2012, at 8:26 PM, Asheesh Laroia <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> > On Sat, 28 Apr 2012, Alec Story wrote: >> > >> >> I know when we discussed this in the past we favored gitorious because >> it's >> >> open. Anyone feel strongly about this? >> > >> > I used to be a big Gitorious partisan, but my main project (OpenHatch) >> just switched to Github for the following reasons: >> > >> > * Better bandwidth >> > * More installed user base >> > * "Web hooks" that let you get pinged when the repo changes >> > >> > Full conversation here: >> > >> > * http://lists.openhatch.org/pipermail/devel/2011-November/002521.html >> > * http://lists.openhatch.org/pipermail/devel/2012-February/002658.html >> > >> > Do note that this makes me sad in some ways. >> > >> > -- Asheesh. >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Webteam mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > http://lists.freeculture.org/mailman/listinfo/webteam >> _______________________________________________ >> Webteam mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.freeculture.org/mailman/listinfo/webteam >> > >_______________________________________________ >Discuss mailing list >[email protected] >http://lists.freeculture.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss >FAQ: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Fc-discuss _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freeculture.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss FAQ: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Fc-discuss
