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Andrew Back andrew at carrierdetect.comHi 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 -- Andrew Back http://carrierdetect.com