Re: [Repo-criteria-discuss] Rough Draft of Announcement (Task 2)

[Mike Gerwitz]

Andrew:

Thanks again for taking time to do this.  I'm expecting Zak to be busy
for a bit to get together all of the videos/photos/etc from LibrePlanet
online and do any other post-conference stuff, but he did say to me
that he's excited to get back to this.

On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 00:24:02 +0000, Andrew Ferguson wrote:
> Mike: I really enjoyed your session, it gave me some very interesting
> thoughts.

Thanks for watching; that was the goal. :)

> Zak: I didn't manage to see yours (my Internet connection dropped out
> for about 3 hours), but I'll look forward to watching it when the
> videos are made available. I hope the protest against DRM in HTML went
> well.

I'm not sure that it was intended to be recorded; I don't recall seeing
a camera in there (it was originally intended to organize the
protesters).  Zak mentioned the history of DRM, there were some general
discussions, and Harry Halpin from the W3C who opposes EME spoke on the
state of things.  Harry also organized a public dialog after the protest
in the MIT Media Lab about EME and the W3C with rms, Joi Ito, Danny
O'Brien, and himself.  That was recorded (I'm not sure by what
organization), as was the protest, so hopefully you'll be able to watch
those at some point.  The protest was filmed by
http://unicornriot.ninja/.

> From Zak's idea for a quote from GitLab to be included in the evaluation
> announcement, a few days ago I emailed Sytse (CEO of GitLab) with a request
> for some comments to a few questions that I felt would give answers suitable
> for inclusion in the announcement. He got back to me tonight, and I have
> attached his email in full so that we can decide the most suitable parts to
> be added.

Excellent; thank you.

> I also thought it may be a good idea to include a quote from Savannah (I
> believe the only other repository to pass the evaluation?).

I also evaluated GitHub, but they fail with flying colors.

> I haven't done this yet though, as I'm not sure who to email. (The
> maintainers of Savannah?  Someone else at the FSF?). Does anyone here
> know?

Maybe address@hidden  If not, they might be able to
tell you who to e-mail.

>> Any other comments you have about GitLab and the ethical repository criteria?
>
> We know our open core business model means that we have to maintain a
> fine balance between having a proprietary version and our stewardship
> of GitLab Community Edition
> https://about.gitlab.com/about/#stewardship  We're always open to
> feedback on what we can do better.

Since this references "open core", for which proprietary software is
an essential part, we won't want to include this.

-- 
Mike Gerwitz
Free Software Hacker | GNU Maintainer & Volunteer
https://mikegerwitz.com
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