[Spaceapi-devel] SpaceAPI forked at spacedirectory.org - what's the plan?

[Eric Stein]

Out of respect for Koen's wishes, I have removed him from the thread. 
Please reply to this message if you have anything to add.

Eric

On 01/21/2017 05:06 AM, Koen Martens wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I originally came up with the idea of the spaceapi, and it's fun to see
> how so many of the early adoptors made it into something real.
>
> However, after the lies, propaganda, crap and abuse the CCC and Jacob
> Appelbaum directed at me, i no longer feel at home in the
> hacker-community at large. I have long since said goodbye to that
> treachorous quagmire of backstabbing bs. I've sure had some great times,
> and there's many in the community I miss, but on the whole the balance
> has tipped to the negative regarding my involvement with it all.
>
> Do whatever you want folks, just don't include me in any of your plans.
> Especially not if the ccc is in any way, either directly or indirectly,
> involved.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Koen (gmc)
>
> On Fri, Jan 20, 2017 at 04:02:04PM -0600, Jim Campbell wrote:
>>     I think I'm reading this as the servers that we've had running for a long
>>     while haven't been used at all?  Is that right? I had assumed that, since
>>     the space api website was up, that it was using those servers.
>>     Whatever you all end up doing is fine, but those servers have been up for
>>     probably years, so I'm a bit disappointed to know that they haven't been
>>     used. Let me know what you decide to do.
>>     Jim
>>     On Fri, Jan 20, 2017 at 3:43 PM, Eric Stein <toba at des.truct.org> wrote:
>>
>>       Hey SpaceAPI maintainers & interested parties...
>>
>>       Just heard from Sheila that https://spacedirectory.org/ is a thing
>>       that's happened.  The announcement about spacedirectory.org -
>>       http://lists.hackerspaces.org/pipermail/discuss/2017-January/011302.html.
>>
>>       I got us some VMs from Jim a long time ago and we never managed to cut
>>       over to them due to various reasons. Do we still need those servers?Â
>>       Current SpaceAPI maintainers (Roland, Romain, Koen) - what do you think
>>       of this?  I personally am hopeful that they mean well and we could
>>       merge our efforts potentially. Some of the things that Romain already
>>       wrote could potentially be usable on this new effort but I don't
>>       personally know how to set them up properly.
>>
>>       I don't know how they intend to do governance of the spec / requirements
>>       for the new directory software.
>>
>>       Eric Stein
>>
>>       @toba
>>
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