That's a really good point about using a lightly locked gate as a way of collecting interested people's email. Even in the case of a totally marketing averse '

That's a really good point about using a lightly locked gate as a way of collecting interested people's email. Even in the case of a totally marketing averse 'free as in beer and speech' open source project, an email list of users is useful. You could tell them about updates, new projects or terrible bugs