<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jun 4, 2019 at 11:47 AM Rick Moen <<a href="mailto:rick@linuxmafia.com">rick@linuxmafia.com</a>> wrote:<div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
By the way, Luis, has OSI ever _really_ advised newcomers to 'read the<br>
archives'? Certainly, speaking for myself, *I'd* never so recommend,<br>
for multiple reasons including that just never working.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>People who have asked questions of the list have certainly been told that, both explicitly and by implication ("well, it isn't written down anywhere else, so...") Usually politely, but polite terrible news is still terrible news.<br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
By the way #2: While of course it's generous of Civilized Discourse<br>
Construction Kit, Inc. to offer to host an instance of the Discourse Web<br>
forum for OSI, it's worth considering the message that would be sent by OSI<br>
thus outsourcing its Internet operations. <br></blockquote><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><a href="https://github.com/OpenSourceOrg/">https://github.com/OpenSourceOrg/</a> has existed, and been relied on, for some time. And that's purely proprietary. <br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">More generally, SaaS is a massive channel for open source these days, and the org has very limited organizational bandwidth. It would seem odd to insist on both avoiding one of (the?) predominant open source distribution model, and imposing overhead on the org.<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div>Luis<br> </div></div></div>