Re: Suggestions for an official GNOME hosted document collaboration suite?

[Sriram Ramkrishna <sri ramkrishna me>]

On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 11:49 AM, Colin Walters <walters verbum org> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 1:32 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna <sri ramkrishna me>
> wrote:
>
> GNOME has a owncloud service. You can use that. (well, it might require
> bieng part of the foundation, but I might re-visit that decision)
>
>
> It really doesn't work for GNOME to provide free services like document
> storage to the entire Internet population for whatever purpose they desire.
> It costs money per user, but we don't have a per-user revenue model.
>
> It does make sense for GNOME to provide infrastructure to *contributors* for
> the purpose of *contributing*, on a best-effort basis.  So it really does
> need to be restricted to foundation members.

When I siad I would re-visit that decision I didn't mean that we would
open it up to everyone.  Clearly, that would not be a wise move.  No,
I wanted to give specific people accounts if they are going to be
working on something that is sanctioned by GNOME or by GNOME
foundation folks.  I don't think Alex is a GNOME foundation member.
It also forces a lot of us who are foundation members to use non-free
services as well as not use our own technologies while plotting ways
for others to use our technologies.

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