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Andrew Back andrew at carrierdetect.com
Thu Nov 14 12:47:22 UTC 2013


Hi Harald,

On 14 November 2013 12:36, Harald Welte <laforge at 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

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