Re: Question to candidates: on-line services

[Stormy Peters <stormy gnome org>]

On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 4:27 PM, Gil Forcada <gforcada gnome org> wrote:

As a member of a the future board will you look for ways to promote and
look for resources to offer these free software cloud services? Maybe
part of a funding campaign (be a Friend of GNOME and have a Tomboy
on-line account for free).

I am a big fan of making sure online services are free in the sense of free software. 

I pushed hard and encourage where ever possible for Tomboy Online and for Tomboy Online to be hosted by the GNOME Foundation. 


I think we can create and host even more free online services.

I
 think with more users will come more use models. I think we could keep 
our numbers small and charge for the service - many of us would be 
willing to pay for free/open services. Or we can find other business 
models like the basic model is free and you pay for additional features.
 There are many models to explore, but I think creating the services and
 getting users is the first step.

I think there is a great need for free and open web services/cloud computing/<insert your favorite name for it here>.

Stormy