Hi Jean
Nope, we are not that specific, we provide hosting to free open source
software projects and associated groups, which may do good for the
community. It is not 100% GNU or "libre" and I would be doing you a
disservice if I said it was.
I was merely raising that in the case where hardware is unaffordable,
we provide, at best, a service that has helped more than 80 projects to
date. Nearly all of those projects are free software, open-source, or
"free". We position ourselves really as supporting the open-source
ecosystem.
We accept projects that are using an OSI-license, our eligibility is
almost identical to that of OSUOSL.org, except we are the UK / European
version without the university affiliation.
Thanks, Thomas
On Friday, November 20, 2020 17:46 GMT, Jean Louis <[email protected]>
wrote:
* Fosshost <[email protected]> [2020-11-20 20:25]:
> Thought it may be helpful at this stage for me to give my 2 cents.
I
> run a project called fosshost.org and our service has been
designed
> with those in mind from underrepresented groups across society.
This
> means where individuals do not have the funds or means to be able
to
> purchase hardware, we can provide it to them virtually, at no
> cost. Clearly this still requires some kind of device to “connect”
> and “manage” the service we provision, but I believe it is less of
> an ask. One use case could simply be that they have a very old
> device with a poor and outdated spec but it’s still strong enough
to
> connect to a remote system. Won’t apply in every case but it’s one
> of the things we are doing here at fosshost.org and we are
growing!
Hello Thomas,
That is great idea and initiative. I have visited the site only that
I
did not find the projects that are specifically hosted there. Are
those listed projects all hosted there? For example for Guix I was
thinking it is on GNU servers.
One thing I am not sure what you mean with open source, do you mean
free software? Is there a policy of hosting actually free software
only?
Is there any policy that will say that free software that is not
exclusively made to control non-free software should not be hosted
there? For example in Hyperbola GNU/Linux-libre we avoid such
software
that may be free itself but may pull or demand non-free software.
For example Debian non-free repository is open source but is
non-free
software, it should be clear from the name of repository.
I am researching and I wish to know which hosting provider to
recommend to other people when switching from Github for example.
Vague terminology for me is:
Open
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Open
Other free software hosting providers I have in the list are
following:
GNU Project
https://www.gnu.org
Savannah, the software forge for people committed to free software
https://savannah.gnu.org
Savannah on nongnu.org
https//savannah.nongnu.org
Codeberg.org (Germany)
https://codeberg.org
Sourcehut.org
https://sourcehut.org
Trisquel GNU/Linux-libre Git Repositories
https://devel.trisquel.info/groups/trisquel
Pagure
https://pagure.io/pagure
Fosshost
https://fosshost.org/
If somebody has more hyperlinks please tell me that I may update my
list.
Jean
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