[Olpc-sysadmin] Volunteers may already be making a gitorious hub (instead of gforge)

[Mel Chua]

Volunteers may already be creating a community-run alternative to an 
OLPC gforge, which we decided VIG wouldn't do in yesterday's meeting.

I just (to my quite happy surprise) got a note from some volunteers 
(independent of yesterday's discussion) mentioning that the fellow 
behind http://gitorious.org/ wants to set up, maintain, and customize an 
OLPC-specific install of the (or alternatively, come up with a way 
community members can tag their gitorious.org projects with 'olpc').

Sample project (I clicked randomly on one): 
http://gitorious.org/projects/python-markdown

This is totally volunteer based, for independent community code projects 
(probably Activities, it seems). They seem to be doing this on their own 
with the understanding that they won't be getting any official 
resources/support from OLPC... though I don't think they'd refuse them, 
if 1cc offered.

This is a heads-up email in case there's something they should 
know/do/not-do while trying this out.

-Mel