<div dir="ltr">I'm concerned about LA running too many services - aren't the infrastructure team already strapped for time?<div>And then we have the MemberDB example - interest but lack of availability to maintain or enhance.</div><div><br></div><div>Perhaps this is best done in the vein Anthony proposed - establish a subcommittee, give them a VM on the LA server(s) and see how it goes. But if it stops being maintained, drop it. It's far riskier to run a poorly maintained service (both for security and brand) than to use free ones.</div><div><br></div><div>I like the idea of LA fostering efforts to address gaps in the free/open ecosystem, but I prefer it when we collaborate with others to create something multiple organisations benefit from (and contribute to), to increase the potential network effects.</div><div><br></div><div>If NZOSS are doing this, wouldn't we do better to collaborate with them?</div><div>-N</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 21 January 2016 at 16:19, Craige McWhirter <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:craige@mcwhirter.com.au" target="_blank">craige@mcwhirter.com.au</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On 20/01/16 21:47, Tennessee Leeuwenburg wrote:<br>
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> onto private companies. Do we need LA or EFF to host a gitlab instance<br>
> in place of github and move FOSS hosting onto a truly libre platform?<br>
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</span>You'll find I pretty much proposed this and a whole swag of other<br>
services in my email to the list a few weeks ago and in my platform<br>
statement.<br>
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If not explicitly, then they were implied.<br>
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It's a great idea, IMHO.<br>
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