Re: Moving Engagement List to Discourse

[Neil McGovern <neil gnome org>]

On Fri, 2019-03-01 at 12:00 -0500, Christopher Davis via engagement-
list wrote:
> After investingating Discourse esterday, I do have some objections
> that I think should be considered. Though the software itself is
> free,
> the mobile app is proprietrary 

It's licensed under MIT: 
https://github.com/discourse/DiscourseMobile/blob/master/LICENSE.txt

> and the Android version has a hard dependency
> on the proprietary Google Chrome app. I don't think we should force
> developers to
> use proprietary applications for out official communication channels.

I've tested and used Firefox on Android to access the mobile site.
Native notifications work fine, and you can add this to your home
screen. It works perfectly well and is probably the preferred method
for use on mobile.

> Mailing lists do not have this problem because there are many free
> software
> e-mail clients.

Luckily, email interaction with Discourse continues to work fine,
should you wish to use it that way:
https://discourse.gnome.org/t/interacting-with-discourse-via-email/46/3

Neil
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Neil McGovern
Executive Director, The GNOME Foundation