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Re:Marginalia Goes Open Source by marginalia_nu on Friday May 27, 2022 @09:56PM (#31536938)
Actual announcement: https://memex.marginalia.nu/log/58-marginalia-open-source.gm...

My gitea instance is on a poor Raspberry Pi, probably won't survive HN front page :P

Re:Marginalia Goes Open Source by pabs3 on Friday May 27, 2022 @11:02PM (#31537236)
Thanks for choosing the GNU AGPLv3 license! That is the best license for services like search engines, especially if they intend to cement the license by having a diverse set of copyright holders that ensure the license doesn't change, rather than going the open core route and requiring copyright assignment via a CLA and selling proprietary versions.

What is your plan for sustaining the project in terms of contributions, funding and hardware?

Re:Marginalia Goes Open Source by marginalia_nu on Friday May 27, 2022 @11:09PM (#31537267)
Yeah, that was my analysis as well.

> What is your plan for sustaining the project in terms of contributions, funding and hardware?

Still much to figure out. The project is still fairly immature in general.

As far as hardware and funding goes, it's sort of sustainable now through not demanding very much in either, but more of both would no doubt be necessary to grow much farther. It's a bit claustrophobic not really having a proper CI machine or test instance for example.

Re:Marginalia Goes Open Source by pabs3 on Friday May 27, 2022 @11:43PM (#31537418)
You might want to consider forming a non-profit for non-technical ownership/governance of the project (that can receive donations etc), or alternatively moving the new open source project under a fiscal sponsor like SPI or Software Freedom Conservancy.

https://www.spi-inc.org/ https://sfconservancy.org/

Re:Marginalia Goes Open Source by em-bee on Saturday May 28, 2022 @12:56AM (#31537722)
If you feel the need to complain about how something doesn't align with your personal philosophical convictions and fails to satisfy your criteria for ideological purity, please write a really long and angry essay about this topic, and send it to <[email protected]>.

Don't forget to press caps lock as you begin typing to save your pinky fingers, I wouldn't want to be responsible for nasty RSI.

i like your attitude. i think you are off to a good start.

that data file, could you host that on github (or gitlab maybe)?

Re:Marginalia Goes Open Source by jwilk on Saturday May 28, 2022 @03:00AM (#31538208)
Reminds me of this classic:

http://bash.org/?835030

Re:Marginalia Goes Open Source by ctxc on Saturday May 28, 2022 @03:43AM (#31538405)
Wow, love this new discovery
Re:Marginalia Goes Open Source by em-bee on Saturday May 28, 2022 @05:13AM (#31538837)
ALERT! WE HAVE A LIVE ONE!

listen, friend, be careful. you don't know what you are dealing with here. put down your device and back away slowly. this stuff is very potent. it's dangerous. if you keep reading, your productivity will go to zero. you may loose your job and your friends. your family may disown you.

if you continue, you are on your own. don't say i didn't warn you!

Re:Marginalia Goes Open Source by dang on Friday May 27, 2022 @11:16PM (#31537300)
We changed the URL to that from https://git.marginalia.nu/marginalia/marginalia.nu. Thanks!
Re:Marginalia Goes Open Source by slowbdotro on Saturday May 28, 2022 @05:12PM (#31543909)
If you want, come mirror it on my gitea instance: gitea.slowb.ro. I'd be happy to take the load ^-^
Re:Marginalia Goes Open Source by mseri on Saturday May 28, 2022 @03:52AM (#31538443)
Seems to be up and running fine. Gitea seems to be quite robust and reliable! I hope you have regular backups, I had a number of unfortunate IO corruptions with the PIs.

Thanks for the open sourcing

Re:Marginalia Goes Open Source by pronoiac on Friday May 27, 2022 @11:40PM (#31537408)
A brief "what is marginalia.nu" section would be awesome!
Re:Marginalia Goes Open Source by em-bee on Saturday May 28, 2022 @01:01AM (#31537740)
i found these pages:

about the search engine: https://memex.marginalia.nu/projects/edge/about.gmi

about the encyclopedia: https://encyclopedia.marginalia.nu/wiki-clean.html

Re:Marginalia Goes Open Source by tejtm on Friday May 27, 2022 @10:52PM (#31537197)
I am not surprised you seem compelled to do the right thing