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Hi everyone. I'm the author of the blog post above, and I am sorry that I caused so much confusion. I have spent much of today trying to clear things up, and w

Hi everyone. I'm the author of the blog post above, and I am sorry that I caused so much confusion. I have spent much of today trying to clear things up, and will be writing a follow up to the post. I see some concern around the mention of a DAO, I tried to get across in the blog post that community is incredibly important, and so I mentioned it as a possible way to ensure community governance, not to create a cryptocurrency and sell that. I mentioned it to be entirely transparent that it was a way that we are possibly investigating to make sure community is still involved. Thanks to our paying clients, the company has been able to hire some maintainers, and contribute back the changes we've made back to the project so everyone can benefit. We are also looking into establishing a fund to not only pay contributors, but also projects we rely on.

sneak 4y ago
What does “enhanced enterprise version” mean? Proprietary software?
_pfxa 4y ago
You say in the blog post itself > To preserve the community aspect of Gitea we are experimenting with creating a decentralized autonomous organization where contributors would receive benefits based on their participation such as from code, documentation, translations, and perhaps even assisting individual community members with support questions. This is a DAO where you earn scrip through a gamified version of FOSS development. This has nothing to do with "community" (which is a word I'm pretty sick of hearing coming from the mouths of software devs and tech companies).
dachary 4y ago
I'm concerned because domains & trademark, previously under the governance of elected community leaders are now owned by a for-profit corporation based in Hong Kong. This is a takeover. I work daily on the Gitea codebase as part of my efforts to further forge federation in forgefriends and did not get any advance warning, just as most volunteer contributors.

sneak 4y ago

What does “enhanced enterprise version” mean? Proprietary software?

_pfxa 4y ago

You say in the blog post itself > To preserve the community aspect of Gitea we are experimenting with creating a decentralized autonomous organization where contributors would receive benefits based on their participation such as from code, documentation, translations, and perhaps even assisting individual community members with support questions. This is a DAO where you earn scrip through a gamified version of FOSS development. This has nothing to do with "community" (which is a word I'm pretty sick of hearing coming from the mouths of software devs and tech companies).

dachary 4y ago

I'm concerned because domains & trademark, previously under the governance of elected community leaders are now owned by a for-profit corporation based in Hong Kong. This is a takeover. I work daily on the Gitea codebase as part of my efforts to further forge federation in forgefriends and did not get any advance warning, just as most volunteer contributors.