Re: gEDA-user: [OT] gEDA Linkedn group

[Steve Meier <smeier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

so what is off topic?

1) a linkedin group associated with the geda project?

or 

2) what the mission statement of the geda group is?

or both?

In my opinion this hasn't moved so far astray that it isn't associated
with the use and users of geda.

For example if social organizations being constructed around the users
of geda is off topic then shouldn't free dog meeting announcements also
be off topic?

My suggestion would be for a group that wishes to organize around a
project would be to ask that project leader if they can just use the
description from off of the web site.

Funny enough just this afternoon, I was contemplating this same issue
(starting a linkedin group) for a mountaineering club I have long been a
member of. 

Steve Meier


On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 21:51 -0500, Ales Hvezda wrote:
> [snip]
> >OK, but you can see where this idea creeps in: people wanting
> >to work on, contribute to, and use Free (as in freedom) hardware
> >designs do not want to depend on proprietary software to do it.
> 
> Exactly, which is the primary reason why I started the gEDA project.
> 
> >
> >Maybe Giuseppe should weaken that statement a little, but it
> >makes sense to keep some kind of reference in there.  Maybe:
> >
> 
> The statement actually comes for the gEDA website and the wording was
> choosen quite explicitly:
> 
> 	The gEDA project was started because of the lack of free EDA
> 	tools for POSIX systems with the primary purpose of advancing
> 	the state of free hardware or open source hardware. ...
> 
> The key words are:
> 
> "The gEDA project was started because ..."
> 
> Also, this license page has been debated and refined in the past:
> 
> http://geda.seul.org/license.html
> 
> and if you want to argue against it, then by all means, but please do it
> offlist.  Thanks,
> 
> 		-Ales
> 
> 
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