On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 05:11:59PM -0800, Mark Holmquist wrote:
By the way, the lack of "GNU" in the name was among the list of things I *don't* expect to change right away, because it is viewed as impractical, and sometimes foolish, by most of the Open Source movement, who have demonstrably influenced the policy of SCaLE in the past (again, see the mission statement and the CFP, id.). It joined abandoning Twitter (which is a nonfree service), removing official iPhone implementations of information apps, and other similar drastic steps that, while maybe commonplace for free software-only conferences, would be very *out* of place, at least currently, for SCaLE.
So what alternatives do you have? Would it make you more happy if we don't use Twitter, Facebook, and G+ as communication channels? What do we do instead? Have you seen http://twitter.com/gnulinux ?
What's wrong with having an iPhone app for the SCALE schedule? Is it also against Free Software principles to have a win32 port of Emacs?