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.

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Many years ago I worked on a project with some FSF staff who refused to use non-FOSS solutions to coordinate or conduct meetings. While the developers involved where all prolific contributors to open source projects used by millions of people, they were all willing to compromise on some of the tools we use to develop and communicate for "the greater good". The FSF staff weren't willing to make those compromises. At the time I was frustrated by this. As Slack ownership changed, costs increased and policies around what they could do with "our" data evolved, I now have a lot more respect for the FSF staff who are "holding the line".