<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Jun 26, 2023 at 4:26 PM Thorsten Glaser <<a href="mailto:tg@mirbsd.de">tg@mirbsd.de</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">I question that the OSI uses such a proprietary thing anyway.<br>
</blockquote><div><br></div><div>I understand it, it's a known issue and technical debt we carry.<br></div><div><br></div><div>This topic pops up often and I repeat the answer here: OSI has a very limited budget, we can't afford to hire an IT manager. This limits our ability to add more tools to our operations. More tools, more security issues, more privacy issues, more GDPR and cookies to track, more privacy policies to update... We're not "simply" using some other tool just because some people don't like/want to use this or that service. We'll use the infrastructure we already have because tech migrations are expensive and at a lower priority than the program work we're doing.</div><div><br></div><div>One of these days I'll have time to describe more publicly our tiny IT infrastructure since most of it is open source, anyway and we don't get credit for it. <br></div><div><br></div><div>Once we'll have a $1M operating budget, we'll be able to hire a full time IT manager to manage migrations to other, open source tools.</div><div><br></div><div>If you want to join the working group without filling in the form, you can email Josh directly and I'm sure he'll be able to loop you in.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>stef<br></div><div><br></div></div></div>