[asterisk-users] voip-info.org status update

[Stephen Bosch]

OCOSA List Acct. wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> Personally all of you who are complaining you need to stop becoming part
> of the problem and become part of the solution. Everyone makes mistakes
> and if you all depend on James' site so much then you need to donate
> some time or contact him about getting a mirror.

The point has been made amply -- he refused requests to mirror. That is
ultimately why people are angry. You want to talk community? Then walk
the walk.

And for all the other people who say that a free service is an excuse
for amateur execution, it's not, and there are ample examples.

Community means just that -- you involve the community. You don't sit on
the egg because you're worried about losing Google ad revenue, or the
extra cost of bandwidth that comes with mirroring. If it's a thankless
enterprise for James, then he should ask for help! It's been offered.

And finally -- no, the wiki is not the only source of information, but
it happens to have become the only *comprehensive* source. Being
unmirrored, that's not a good circumstance.

Here's an undeniable fact -- look how much list traffic this outage has
generated! People have been using and depending on it. Some people have
pointed out things that could be improved; offers of help have been
ignored or worse, rejected. That doesn't sound like community to me.

Community is everybody working together. One person sitting on
information, no matter the personal sacrifice, does not constitute
community.

-Stephen-