Atrack developers to Trisquel

I wonder what are the peeps at gnewsense doing.

I thought Stack Overflow had an OpenSource Ad section for just such a thing?

Am I the only one who read this as "Attack developers to Trisquel"? :P

there is an "r" though.

arrack
n 1: any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses

Don't mind us antiesnob, you are perfectly understandable!! :)

Yea- I think we should be attacking the free software developers. I mean Rubén Rodríguez a.k.a. quidam is a terrible roll model! He could be doing so much more. Ohhh wait. That was suppose to be attract? My bad.

:)

Note: Rubén is actually awesome! Just joining in on the light humour to lighten up the forums.

One idea I had was that we should outreach to other Libre distros, ones that no longer have the time and effort to maintain an entire system to themselves. Essentially combine forces to get more work towards a more singular goal.

It has been a thought I have pondered for a while, one that probably isn't very practical or feasible but I can dream. :)

I have always been a fan of advertising. (attached) :)

One of the problems with attracting developers is you need *good* developers and people with the time to actually focus on these sorts of projects. Adding developers and volunteers can become more work than actually doing it yourself. I'd rather have one good employee than 100 volunteers each donating 1 hour a day.

The best approach I think is ultimately to build projects that can funnel money back to the community projects and even hire employees to work full time on them.

ThinkPenguin is a great example of this. Though we're small we're making progress. We have a bunch of people working on different projects full time. Nobody is getting rich at it... yet. However building a company takes time. I'm hoping to see something come out of ThinkPenguin that is wildly successful in the coming years. We've got the people, we've got the seed money (and are not dependant on any investors whom would likely have other interests not in line with freedom), and we're making things happen. It takes just *one* good product with mass appeal, the right marketing, and enough of a budget to turn the tide on 'open source' and proprietary software. If we can get the business models up and running then the developers, engineers, and so on will come streaming in to push freedom forward. It's been done before (in large part, ie Redhat) and we just need to duplicate these efforts in other areas (ie hardware, desktop distributions, and more specifically 100% libre, not just mostly free, etc).

We just need to do this all within the free software camp as opposed to the 'open source' camp.

I agree with attracting (attacking?) developers to Trisquel- there seems to be
a massive duplication of effort when it comes to FSF-endorsed distros. Most of
them are either dormant, dying, dead, too small to be of any real value, a
duplication of effort, or useless since Trisquel is the only one the FSF
actually promotes anyway. Musix is... I don't even know what Musix is for, BLAG
is (sadly) dead, gNewSense is nowhere near as good as Trisquel (anyone can roll
a Debian distro with contrib and non-free removed- isn't one apt-based
Debian-ecosystem distribution enough), Dragora is dead. I don't even know why
they all exist. There should be one apt-based distro combining the efforts of
gNewSense and Trisquel (Trisquel proper) and one pacman-based libre distro for
geek appeal (currently Parabola). This is probably one of the few problems with
the free software world- everything gets forked and there are millions of small
projects wasting people's time and effort as opposed to a few good
distributions. Don't fork! Contribute!

^ The hypocrisy coming from a person who doesn't contribute. My point is made
though- I was addressing actual developers.