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Re: State of the GNUnion 2020
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Alexandre François Garreau |
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Re: State of the GNUnion 2020 |
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Fri, 21 Feb 2020 11:59:42 +0100 |
Le jeudi 20 février 2020, 18:39:52 CET Samuel Thibault a écrit :
> Alfred M. Szmidt, le jeu. 20 févr. 2020 12:32:16 -0500, a ecrit:
> > > > Our concern is that at some point GNU may be just completely
> > > > unknown
> > > > to free software enthousiasts. As in, when you'd ask people
> > > > what free
> > > > software is about, they would answer "ah, yes, the stuff on
> > > > github,
> > > > right".
> > >
> > > Okay, sure. But going back to Eli's point, the development
> > > activity of
> > > individual projects is determined by individual project's
> > > members, and is rarely affected by the actions of the
> > > leadership.
> >
> > The activity by itself, yes, but the choice of where to start a new
> > project, or starting contributing an existing project, leadership
> > does
> > have a lot of importance.
> >
> > How does that have to do with the overall project leadership, which
> > hasn't changed significantly over the years, and yet had significant
> > growth in new projects for several decades (if we take the graphs by
> > Wingo at face value).
>
> "Significant growth" is very little compared to the huge growth that can
> be seen on other platforms.
So when measuring we should only dare to measure GNU stuff in comparison
with other software projects and platforms. Very interesting.
> I'm not saying that GNU will necessarily stop growing and decline. What
> I'm afraid is that it might just become insignificant compared to
> others, and thus its voice for the 4 freedoms become less and less
> heard.
That’s a reasonable fear, so that should be what should have been measured
in the metrics discussed in this thread.
- Re: State of the GNUnion 2020, (continued)
- Re: State of the GNUnion 2020, Alexandre François Garreau, 2020/02/25
- Re: State of the GNUnion 2020, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2020/02/20
- Re: State of the GNUnion 2020, Samuel Thibault, 2020/02/20
- Re: State of the GNUnion 2020, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2020/02/20
- Re: State of the GNUnion 2020, Kaz Kylheku (gnu-misc-discuss), 2020/02/22
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- Re: [Hangout - NYLXS] State of the GNUnion 2020, Samuel Thibault, 2020/02/20
- Re: State of the GNUnion 2020, John Darrington, 2020/02/21
- Re: State of the GNUnion 2020, Andreas Enge, 2020/02/21
- Re: [Hangout - NYLXS] State of the GNUnion 2020, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/02/22
- Re: State of the GNUnion 2020, Andreas R., 2020/02/22
- Re: State of the GNUnion 2020,
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- Re: State of the GNUnion 2020, Samuel Thibault, 2020/02/21
- Re: State of the GNUnion 2020, Alexandre François Garreau, 2020/02/22
- Re: State of the GNUnion 2020, Samuel Thibault, 2020/02/22
- Re: State of the GNUnion 2020, Alexandre François Garreau, 2020/02/22
- Re: State of the GNUnion 2020, Samuel Thibault, 2020/02/22
- Re: State of the GNUnion 2020, DJ Delorie, 2020/02/22
- Re: State of the GNUnion 2020, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/02/22
- Re: State of the GNUnion 2020, DJ Delorie, 2020/02/22
- Re: State of the GNUnion 2020, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/02/22
- Re: State of the GNUnion 2020, Ruben Safir, 2020/02/23