Le 2016-10-05 08:19, brynn a écrit :

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Subject: [Inkscape-user] looking for a forum host
Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2016 17:45:17 -0600
From: brynn <brynn@...3246...33...>
Reply-To: Inkscape User Community <inkscape-user@lists.sourceforge.net>
To: Inkscape User Community <inkscape-user@lists.sourceforge.net>

Hi Friends,
    As some of you know, a small committee has been investigating the
possibility of creating a new "official" Inkscape forum.  All along,
we've been pretty much expecting that OSUOSL would host it for us (since
they already host our website and wiki).  However, after an initial
request (nearly 6 weeks ago), an updated request (~10 days later), and a
3rd contact (which was just last week) we still have no response from them.
    Assuming they would notify us, even if the answer is 'no', we think
they are probably still working on it, and have not made a decision yet.
   But we're starting to think the answer might well be 'no', and we're
starting to research about other ways to host this forum.
    So we want to tap the resources of the whole community, and ask if
anyone knows of any either open-source-friendly webhost besides OSUOSL,
or maybe some kind of program which might pay hosting fees for an open
source project (in the event we can't find a free host).
    Note that the so-called "free webhosting" sites would probably not be
acceptable, since they usually accomplish making it free, by loading the
site up with advertising.
    One idea which might be feasible, is setting up some kind of crowd
funding, to create the capital for some kind of money-market fund or
something like a trust, whose income would pay the monthly fee.  The
reason why it's such a big "might" is because it would take some time
for this fund to reach the point where it could cover the fees (and we
hope to get the forum online much sooner than that would take).
    I've offered, and I'm sure a lot of people in the community might
volunteer to pay or help to pay the fees.  But that puts us in a similar
situation which we're trying to remedy with this effort (i.e. a single
owner potentially disappearing).  I would consider this to be a last resort.
    Has anyone heard of any webhost that might meet our needs; or maybe
some kind of program which would pay the hosting fees?

Thank you very much,
brynn
(for the committee)

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Hi to all.
Maybe a mail for nothing, but:

I think sourceforge.net is hosted by Illiad S.A.S, an ISP (formerly know as "Free" in France). they maybe could help you, the "Freeboxes" (their routers) use Linux and free software.

google translation from this: http://www.iliad.fr/amf/2010/documentdereference2009.pdf

<<It also hosts and provides fifty servers for various associations including
APRIL (Association for Promotion and Research in Libre Computing) TuxFamily.org, Central
Networks, Linux62, the APINC (Association for Internet NonCommercial), the AFAU (French Association
Usenet amateur) OxyRadio (associative radio which promotes artists who have chosen the free
dissemination of their works on the Internet).
As part of aid to the distribution of free software, the Free Corporate Foundation has set up
HTTP and FTP sites mirror for software (Linux Ubuntu, Debian Linux, FreeBSD, Videolan) and ensures
the French hosting site SourceForge projects. With more than 250,000 projects and 2,000,000
of registered users, the Sourceforge site is the largest collection of OpenSource applications
available on the internet.>>

 

May it can help you/us :)