Hi Harald,
On 14 November 2013 12:36, Harald Welte laforge@gnumonks.org wrote:
Hi Peter,
thanks for your feedback.
On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 06:57:01PM +0100, Peter Stuge wrote:
I agree with you and Harald here.
To avoid any doubt, I have updated the mailing list rules http://openbsc.osmocom.org/trac/wiki/MailingListRules to include a chapter about spam/uce/ube. So at least from now on, nobody can claim that it was not clear that such postings are not welcome.
But there is also a bootstrapping problem, and I think it *is* in the interest of the open source project to help those who seek commercial products and services which contribute to the project to find the right suppliers.
If some OpenBSC users inquired on the list here about commercial support, I wouldn't consider a simple response like 'we are providing commercial support' wrong. I just don't think they deserve to be sent advertisements before they even raised the question.
I'd like to point out that I think it was a good idea for Alexander to send an email saying that he was at the conference and inviting to meet up with anyone who wanted to chat - only the blatant advertising in the email was stepping over the line IMO.
I agree here, too. If it was just an "I'm at this or that conference, OpenBSC users/developers interested in meeting up, please contact me" then it would be outside of a marketing/advertising context, and merely folks interested in OpenBSC meeting up.
Regarding a separate list for commercial offerings surrounding OpenBSC or other osmocom projects: I'm open for that, and at least two people have indicated interest in subscribing to it. Now we only need to find a name for the list to go ahead. 'osmocom-advertisements' is not correct, as the list is not about advertising Osmocom itself, but products using it / compatible with it. 'osmocom-products' is also not exactly correct. Any better ideas?
How about 'product-announce' or 'commercial-announce' (to include services)?
Best,
Andrew