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1. Colegota El Villano (colegota@gnusocial.villanos.net)'s status on Sunday, 20-Jan-2019 22:03:34 UTC Colegota El Villano

   • GNU Social
   • Diogo Cordeiro
   @diogo well... video it's nice, your work in !gnusocial it's great and as many people here  I really appreciate it!
   
   The only matter it's that many people in GNU Social and free networks are here escaping of big corporations and specially Google... so I'm a little confused about it.
   
   But please don't take it as a criticism. Just thoughts.
   • Diogo Cordeiro (diogo@loadaverage.org)'s status on Sunday, 20-Jan-2019 16:09:39 UTC Diogo Cordeiro
     This will be an awesome summer!
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   • Colegota El Villano (colegota@gnusocial.villanos.net)'s status on Sunday, 20-Jan-2019 20:35:47 UTC Colegota El Villano

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     • GNU Social
     • Diogo Cordeiro
     @up201705417 ¿the summer of !gnusocial on the desktop? ;)
   • Diogo Cordeiro (diogo@loadaverage.org)'s status on Sunday, 20-Jan-2019 20:51:32 UTC Diogo Cordeiro

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     This post was for the video in this page: https://go.diogo.site/gsoc2019
     Let me know if you like it! :)
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   • Diogo Cordeiro (diogo@loadaverage.org)'s status on Monday, 21-Jan-2019 00:18:45 UTC Diogo Cordeiro

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     Yours concerns about big corporations are understandable and I share them (although I won't deny using their services sometimes, I guess I'm a fixer-upper). But sometimes those organizations do good things too and GSoC is an example of that.
     
     My activity past summer in GNU social was sponsored by GSoC, and receiving some income for the time I've dedicated was helpful. I have friends that have to work on the summer in order to help their families. Programs like GSoC allow them to contribute to the FLOSS community while receiving some important money for doing something they enjoy.
     
     GS in GSoC was something I have asked MMN-o for past year but it was ultimately possible thanks to GNU acting as an umbrella organization for its packages. I think GNU understands that GSoC is not something harmful as it brings students to the Open Source world.
     
     I feel that GNU social needs more developers and I believe GSoC can help with that. Finally, even if those developers may help only for the money in the beginning (it wasn't my case but it is legit for the above mentioned reasons), they will eventually fall in love by GS like us and will be helping whenever possible even without the GSoC income. ;)
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   • Colegota El Villano (colegota@gnusocial.villanos.net)'s status on Monday, 21-Jan-2019 06:36:53 UTC Colegota El Villano

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     • MMN-o ✅⃠
     • Diogo Cordeiro
     @diogo I understand your reasons, even I did last summer. But you ask for my opinion, ;) so mine it's that "at the tanks never came our people". :)
     
     Also agree that GS needs more developers, but maybe first we need it's to unblock it. More than a year or two without maintenance nor development and seems it will not change.
     At the other side, more or less a year ago we were waiting for past GSoC hopping time to AP federation, but mostly time to start develop and maintenance again. One year later we are again waiting for GSoC. :)
     
     I probably miss something and I don't know the reasons, but the fact it seems this project wants to be abandoned at first by GNU/FSF.
     
     In the meantime, thanks again for your efforts! Please, keep helping GS in the way you consider.
     
     cc/ @mmn 
   • MMN-o ✅⃠ (mmn@social.umeahackerspace.se)'s status on Monday, 21-Jan-2019 06:39:48 UTC MMN-o ✅⃠

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     • Free, Libre, and Open Source Software
     • ar.al🌻
     Whenever we can take resources from Google without giving anything back - or maybr even developing anti-Google-stuff - I think we should take those resources. The fact that they get some PR out of it (as @aral constantly complains about) is less important as I think they could get that anyway without contributing to !fs
     
     Though I agree they shouldn't get any speaker time even if they "platinum sponsor" events.
     
     cc: @diogo@loadaverage.com
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   • Colegota El Villano (colegota@gnusocial.villanos.net)'s status on Monday, 21-Jan-2019 06:53:24 UTC Colegota El Villano

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     • MMN-o ✅⃠
     • Diogo Cordeiro
     @mmn  and at the other side... do you think it's possible to unblock GS maintenance and development?
     
     There was a few PR's waiting for approval before Rob Myers remove it accidentally (and I don't know if he can restore it).
     
     @diogo
     @robmyers account at quitter.se never exists.
   • MMN-o ✅⃠ (mmn@social.umeahackerspace.se)'s status on Monday, 21-Jan-2019 10:05:02 UTC MMN-o ✅⃠

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     • Diogo Cordeiro
     I want to put @diogo as maintainer (or co- if desired) .]
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   • Diogo Cordeiro (diogo@loadaverage.org)'s status on Monday, 21-Jan-2019 14:14:31 UTC Diogo Cordeiro

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     • MMN-o ✅⃠
     I would rather be co-maintainer, I think it is important for GS to have you as the project maintainer, you were there since the beginning and kept the project safe from contradictory ideologies. We all have more or less free time in different seasons. And thus I don't think one should leave his position in a FLOSS just because someone new has more free time for now. Yu have always made clear that I could look for you in case I needed help or were unable to understand something, I think this, the multiple threads were you participate to debate things that concern GS, and the fact that you have been actively using GS is more than enough to prove your active interest in the project despite currently not being able to actively develop or even maintain it.
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