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1. Diogo Cordeiro (diogo@loadaverage.org)'s status on Monday, 21-Jan-2019 09:18:45 JST Diogo Cordeiro

   • Colegota El Villano
   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. ;)
   • Diogo Cordeiro (diogo@loadaverage.org)'s status on Monday, 21-Jan-2019 01:09:39 JST Diogo Cordeiro
     This will be an awesome summer!
   • Diogo Cordeiro (diogo@loadaverage.org)'s status on Monday, 21-Jan-2019 05:51:32 JST Diogo Cordeiro

     • Colegota El Villano
     This post was for the video in this page: https://go.diogo.site/gsoc2019
     Let me know if you like it! :)
   • Colegota El Villano (colegota@gnusocial.villanos.net)'s status on Monday, 21-Jan-2019 15:36:53 JST Colegota El Villano

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     • MMN-o ✅⃠
     @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 
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   • MMN-o ✅⃠ (mmn@social.umeahackerspace.se)'s status on Monday, 21-Jan-2019 15:49:09 JST MMN-o ✅⃠

     • GNU Social
     • Free, Libre, and Open Source Software
     • fediverse
     • Colegota El Villano
     Yeah, GNU/FSF have never put any resources in to GNU social apart from maintaining the general !fs politics worldwide.
     Originally Evan had startup grants, I just put in my free time (which I barely have any left nowadays) and @diogo got the gsoc stuff.
     
     While I enjoy the !ostatus solution much more than ActivityPub maybr we should see what has been generated "outside" of !gnusocial .) Think of how many people have managed to find their way out on the !fediverse even if it's maybe not via GS specifically. But it's all AGPL .)
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