hi; On 15 October 2012 11:32, Andrea Veri <[email protected]> wrote: > 2012/10/15 Emmanuele Bassi <[email protected]>: > >> have we had any indication that being on irc.gnome.org is in any way, >> shape, or form preventing people from contributing to GNOME - and that >> moving to freenode would open the floodgates to new contributors? > > Freenode has more than 80000 users and I'm pretty much sure a lot of > new contributors willing to join the GNOME Project are looking for > #gnome-* channels there and not on GIMPNET which is a network with > less than 2000 users connected per day, it's a matter of numbers.
again, that's like saying that we ought to move to GitHub or Gitorious because "they have more users than git.gnome.org". it's an obviously true statement: freenode, like GitHub, hosts a ton of projects; the statement above, though, forgets that there are branding reasons associated with having infrastructure under the *.gnome.org domain, as well as historical ones. plus, I have yet to see the justification for the "if you move it, they will come" attitude. we're already exposed to more users than the 80 thousands on freenode: it's not the IRC network that makes them contribute to our project (we'd also be self-selecting against the subset of users that know or use IRC); users join irc.gnome.org *after* they start contributing to GNOME. ciao, Emmanuele. -- W: http://www.emmanuelebassi.name B: http://blogs.gnome.org/ebassi/ _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
