Re: [Evolution] Discourse and the situation for Mailman lists hosted by Gnome.org

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Sun, 2022-10-23 at 15:35 +0100, Pete Biggs wrote:
> > I have worked with a number of professional organizations that are
> > maintained primarily by volunteer staff and effort.  The "powers
> > that
> > be" are usually people who are doing a lot of work for free -- even
> > if
> > the people at the very top are being paid a little.  Sometimes
> > that's
> > because they believe in a "cause," sometimes because they like
> > being
> > the expert at something, sometimes because they like being a useful
> > part of an organization.   But whatever the gain, it's still for
> > free.
>
> Except Gnome is a Foundation and it is supported by a large number of
> very large tech companies. Most of the infrastructure is provided by
> Redhat and they have a large presence on the Gnome Foundation board.

What I can't understand is that all the Fedora lists, some of which I
am on, continue to be run via Mailman, and presumably by staff that
work for RedHat. This doesn't look to me like a RedHat decision.

poc