Emilia Jarochowska 🇺🇦🌱
@chartgerink Good point! I think it depends on how you consider contribution or other forms of engaging with your data or software. If your workflows rely on GitHub features, you force potential contributors to use the platform and rely on GitHub maintaining the features you use. For example, in GitHub Classroom Codespaces recently stopped working - out of the blue and that's in the middle of the course for some teachers. Others at #osf2023nl pointed out that GitHub cannot be accessed from Iran and access from China is limited. I don't know the answer, just sharing here that this took me by surprise.
Btw thanks for a nice chat today!
Aug 31, 2023 at 6:40pmWeb
Show threadGjalt-Jorn PetersAug 31, 2023

@Emiliagnathus @chartgerink What she said 😬

I think it's mostly the bit about open infra (from e.g. the UNESCO recommendation): for scientific means (e.g. social networking), we should use/build/maintain open infra. That means open source (so no GitHub, but gitlab and Codeberg are ok). I think open OSes would be better, too - but that's a very hard switch, and switching to Codeberg from GitHub is very easy, once you know the concept of a Git forge 🙂

So the thread isn't pulled 100% 😬