• abeorch@friendica.ginestes.esOP
    2·
    4 days ago

    Yeah I am just getting involved in the project. I think that engaging with a full suite of open source products is a good way to show how they can be used by Credit Unions and save a heap of costs…but I also understand this is a process and sometimes you do need to be aware of what your audience uses. Its a process right?

    • Cris@lemmy.worldEnglish
      17·
      4 days ago

      Is it better for them to build an open source app and host their meetings on Zoom, a platform familiar to the audience they’re hoping to bring, or for them to just not, and for local cooperative banks to all build their own in-house proprietary banking apps with no open source option existing?

      I’d really like it if we stopped letting perfect be the enemy of good. My credit union uses an app that’s just a webview wrapper for their website. I haven’t taken a look at the project but a native app built as an open source community project would be fucking awesome, regardless of whether they host video meetings with zoom or jitsi.

      They want their project to succeed. A free software project that dies doesn’t actually provide anyone with freedoms; hosting with the more well known and familiar video hosting software when they have no existing audience is the right choice.