On Mon, April 23, 2012 2:15 pm, Robin Gareus wrote:
Which in this case doesn't actually exist hence the reason I initiated the
discussion on the consortium mailing list in the first place.
>>>> So a policy that sets clear guidelines is completely out of the
And I queried why it is his decision to make that call. There was not
official vote. Just a finger in the air based on a few negative answers
from a total of four people.
>> These items have already been discussed and I provided options which
My suggestion was to move a couple of the subdomains specifically
lau.linuxaudio.org
quicktoots.linuxaudio.org
To a different server so that they would be able to host paid ads and
there would be no conflict with the requirements that vt.edu place on
content hosted on their own servers.
Given that Daniel maintains the dns for the domain and that is hosted on
an entirly different server again there is no conflict with the vt.edu
restrictions.
However it seems that some people feel that vt.edu now owns and controls
the linuxaudio.org domain and therefore anything to do with it is subject
to the vt.edu policy. Which I assume also includes this mailing list.
Which is strange as originally this mailing list was not setup to be at
the control of vt.edu policy and neither was the linuxaudio.org domain or
for the matter the Consortium.
IMO there is some confusion about what ICO's role as a member of VT is,
the restrictions that vt.edu place on linuxaudio.org and the role of the
consortium in regards to maintaining it's remit.
> Also your way of approaching the consortium is - at best - questionable.
Considering this is not the first time that I have been subject to
barriers being placed in my way in regards to the direction of lau guide
and the quicktoots whcih are both sites I founded prior to linuxaudio.org
even existing and which I clearly stated before moving them to the still
freshly brewed portal when there were only a couple of other things going
on there I decided in my infinite wisdom that it was better to move them
somewhere that was less restricting and not subject to the policy of an
institution that should not be able to put barriers in my way.
Ico had already stated quite clearly that he though t it was appropriate
for me to redirect to the new server so I did.
> I can completely understand that the consortium does want not continue
So irrational prejudice is considered to be an acceptable method of
forming a consensus. Is this an Academic approach to business in general?
actually make sense.
>>> From what I've learned: official policies are best avoided and replaced
And you are opposed to that?
>
No one suggested that the entire domain be moved to a new host in order to
accept third party advertising. Ever. Definitely not me. It seems there
has been some confusion or perhaps it is due to the "fog of intense
discussion"
>
Well I would love to be in a financial position where that would be
possible...