[okfn-discuss] Open Knowledge Foundation Strategy slides

Mon Jul 22 03:59:51 UTC 2013

Yes, thank you Diane. It is very clear, and I somewhat agree with you. I agree that open communities should use open source *to the extent practical*, and I don't think open source will disappear if open communities do use non-open services.

But, instead of getting into an argument about it, an argument that generally has no end, I do want to say that I agree with the spirit of your statement. To the extent practical, we *should* use and support open source, because then others can build upon our work and we upon the the works of others.

Many thanks,

On Jul 21, 2013, at 5:59 PM, Diane Mercier <diane.mercier at gmail.com> wrote:

> Sorry for my poor english.
> Gitorious.org is completely open source.
> Open community should adopt open source like gitorious.org instead privative SaaS (e.g. Github or Google).
> If Open community use privative SaaS (e.g. Github or Google, etc.) than open source (e.g. gitorious.org, etc.) will disappear.
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> Is this clear?
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> Why OKFN choose Google Drive, Github, etc. instead contribute to open source development and adoption.
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> Le 2013-07-21 13:11, Mr. Puneet Kishor a écrit :
>> On Jul 21, 2013, at 9:04 AM, Diane Mercier <diane.mercier at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> Or join communities of developers until these Open tools disappear purchased or removal by the SaaS of this world, for example gitorious.org
>> I want to understand the above sentence better. Are  you saying that gitorious.org *has* either disappeared, purchased or removed, or are you saying that gitourious.org is an "SaaS of this world" that will purchase or remove "Open tools"?
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>> Afaict, gitorious is completely open source (offered under a GNU Affero GPL).
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>> Puneet Kishor
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