I am participating in the UN Open Science conference. #OpenScienceUN
https://www.un.org/library/OS21
Trump did great damage to the USA. The entire world is there with video calls, while the White House is now talking on the telephone. 🤡 At least it is land line quality.
@VictorVenema Scientists are practised at making comments look like questions. So as the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy was there I asked:
"Mr. Sheehan, is the White House #OSTP aware that the main Open Source Code repository #GitHub is forced by the US to block several countries, which makes it useless for scientific use?"
@VictorVenema @VictorVenema A developer just told me they would be willing to expand & enhance a #FOSS tool, but because the project is in MS #GitHub, they opted not to. I just want that on record for those who think putting their project on Github encourages support.
@resist1984 @VictorVenema@fediscience.org @VictorVenema@bonn.social
When I find bugs, I want to report them as a responsible user. But if the project uses Github, I can't do it.
@redstarfish @resist1984 @VictorVenema@fediscience.org @VictorVenema@bonn.social I have the same problem with #gitlab. It's a pity that a protocol like git that was meant for #decentralization is now subject to platform wars. I guess someone should disrupt the whole thing by building a convenient #federated collaboration and communication infrastructure around git.
@dreiwert @VictorVenema @VictorVenema @redstarfish a project to do that is already underway. I forgot what they were calling it though. Maybe "fedilab"?
@resist1984 @dreiwert @VictorVenema@bonn.social @VictorVenema@fediscience.org @redstarfish close, but no cigar. It's based on Activitypub, and at least Gitea has more than one open issue on it (GitLab too, IIRC). I forgot the name as well; wasn't it something with "forge"? ForgeFed?
@IzzyOnDroid @resist1984 @dreiwert @VictorVenema@bonn.social @VictorVenema@fediscience.org @redstarfish
Yes, you are both correct. #FedeProxy is a new grassroots community and dev project to federate code forges, and will use the #ForgeFed protocol among others to do so.
@dachary I think will find this use case for #science very interesting.
FedeProxy is driving initiative for #Gitea with a grant applicaiton (5k Euro already available). See: https://forum.fedeproxy.eu/t/grant-application-for-federation-in-gitea/284
See also: https://forgefed.peers.community
@resist1984 @dreiwert @VictorVenema@bonn.social @VictorVenema@fediscience.org @redstarfish
Fedilab is already a thing, but not a git thing...
https://f-droid.org/en/packages/fr.gouv.etalab.mastodon/