Hello Christian,
2013/8/15 Christian Persch <c...@gnome.org>: > That's a distinction without difference. The point remains that the > GNOME trademark is used to promote a proprietary web service. > Coupled with the word "Official" this even constitutes a strong > endorsement. It's the other way around, we are using the GitHub trademark to promote contributions to GNOME, GitHub will do just fine with or without us, the extend at which we are promoting them is very limited if almost non existant. We could remove the word official, sure, that won't make it any less official though, the hooks will still be within GNOME's infrastucture and I will be making sure they run fine. Just to clarify, this is NOT the official git mirror for GNOME, this is the official GNOME mirror for github users. I have no plans to push for maintainers or any GNOME related activity relying on this mirror, this is a nice to have for existing github users. > I've received word that the board will consider this question, so let's > leave it at that until then. Sure, but if you want to play the integrity game, how come you are not questioning our usage of Google services all across our infrastructure? The usage of twitter and Google+ as outreach tools? Should we also ban any company from joining the foundation if they have any privative product? Cause we are promoting them officially in our foundation's page, you know? Sorry if I sound harsh but I can't help thinking that this complains are extremely arbitrary and quite far from being coherent. If you care about sofware freedom, how come you are against of it being more widely available and placed in a service that would in effect attract more contributions? If you are afraid that by supporting this mirror we are going to make GitHub even more popular you should check GitHub stats on active users and code being hosted and compare it to GNOME at large, you would be surprised how extremely small we are in comparison. It is us who are taking advantage of them, not the other way around. -- Cheers, Alberto Ruiz _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
