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Comment by jcadam | Hacker News Reader

One would think setting up a non-profit organization (a la Wikipedia) to host a Github-like service for open source projects would be a good idea (I'd work on such a project). But without capital to expend on marketing/outreach, I'm not sure such a thing would gain much traction.

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Why is a nonprofit better than a commercial vendor? It's still subject to the whims of the leadership. It's especially ironic with Git, which has portability as a core feature, so hosting can be on as many hosts as possible, and it's simple to move the "master" as desired.

Why exactly would a source control system need traction?

It's just a place where you store your git repo.

And as for discoverability: I wouldn't want to give a single party control over that, actually. I'd say let people discover projects through other means, such as HN.

> It's just a place where you store your git repo.

But Github is so much more than that. It's a public forum to discuss and prioritize issues, a social network to start projects with friends, an automatic portfolio of sorts for your resume, and a really well managed, nicely integrated, reliable service.

This is all, I think, a function of its scale and the traction it's gotten.

Still doesn't explain why projects should be all in one place, as opposed to spread over the internet.

I think https://notabug.org/about fits your criteria.

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