johns at 2015-04-22T15:40:44Z

Anyone have recommendations for web design freelancers/companies willing to use Inkscape/GIMP, and might be interested in projects for any/all of Drupal, WordPress, MediaWiki, good old HTML?

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The FSF has a poorly maintained Service Directory that I would love to see deployed on a platform that would make it useful and maintainable. But yeah, seems like something others should have too.

johns at 2015-04-22T21:47:31Z

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I don't think I ever saw https://www.fsf.org/resources/service before. I suspect there are way too many potential providers for FSF to maintain a list like that, at least without a wiki and lots of people to help. But it could raise the bar and make providers listed meet criteria analogous to and as stringent as RYF. Probably not many would qualify and if they did that would be a very good thing. :)

Mike Linksvayer at 2015-04-22T22:31:15Z

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We have not promoted it for a long time, but people still write to us periodically to be listed or have their listings updated.

I like the idea of criteria analogous to RYF. Have also thought about enabling some kind of reputation/rating system, with all the problems that entails. But could be used to differentiate, for example, designers who use GNU/Linux + Inkscape, from designers who use Mac + Inkscape, while still listing the latter.

johns at 2015-04-22T23:00:31Z

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>> Mike Linksvayer:

“I do not, but this reminds me of a class of things I find disturbing: free software projects with websites that make zero connection to paying for the software, services or products using or supporting it. The thing that usually reminds me of this is of distro sites with no link to buy a systems with distro preinstalled. But where on inkscape.org or gimp.org can I find shops that do expert work using those programs?”


Eventually we can try to get Xubuntu in that direction. I would really like it to go that way. For now I am stuck in a very hideous position working for the most hated civilian agency of the US Government which kinda takes up too much time...

Stephen Michael Kellat at 2015-04-22T23:51:41Z