Re: Agenda for board meeting on September 26th

["Andres G. Aragoneses" <knocte gmail com>]

On 29/09/14 22:50, Richard Stallman wrote:
> If the GNOME Foundation is considering inviting members of the
> community to use Bountysource to communicate with the Foundation, that

I'm not sure I understand Richard. Out of curiosity, have you used 
Bountysource? It doesn't incorporate a messaging system whatsoever. It's 
a façade to bug-tracking-systems. For example, for an issue page in 
bountysource that is raising funds for a GNOME project, its content 
exactly mirrors what the upstream bugzilla bug has.


> raises two ethical issues:
>
> * Privacy.  This would result in giving Bountysource people's personal data,
> which it shouldn't have any right to know.

I don't see how one can give more personal data than the one you give 
from signing up with GNOME's bugzilla. Plus, they support bitcoin, so 
you don't even need to give them your banking details.


> * Free software.  Many web sites require visitors to run nonfree
> software to use some or even all of the functionality.  See
> http://gnu.org/philosophy/javascript-trap.html.  Does Bountysource
> work without nonfree JS?  I don't know, but one can't presume that.

Their JS is opensource (they say they bootstrap their platform by 
posting bounties on their JS code). Unfortunately not all of their code 
is open source (their server-side is not), and FYI the alternative which 
is 100% opensource is called FreedomSponsors, so maybe you want to 
advocate for the latter, but truth to be told, its interface is much 
less polished than Bountysource.