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On Monday 24 May 2004 04:56, Corey Shields wrote: |
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> I like Grant's idea, but Kurt has a good point of the way things |
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> currently run. However, if we were to stike gold someday, it wouldn't |
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> be a bad idea to become more self sufficient with some servers, just |
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> for the luxury of having a vendor warranty on all boxen and hopefully |
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> avoid some of the "crap, a hard drive failed!". Before anyone thinks |
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> I'm jumping the gun, let me say that this is not a priority when it |
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> comes to our initial budget.. :) |
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I agree. Kurt's idea on spending is a good idea. Also we might want to go |
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to a point where we do have more reliable infrastructure. At some point |
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when we have real money (I know we don't yet) we might want to look at |
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raid and/or tapestreamers |
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> As we are designing policies and the such, keep in mind that we need |
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> to be as flexible as the open source project we are serving. So, if |
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> we were to budget things out to groups on a regular basis, it might |
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> not be the best idea because the needs of those groups will fluctuate. |
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I agree as long as the needs are not structural. We might want to have |
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some kind of idea of division however. We might for example try to get |
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some idea about how we will support tradeshows/events like LWE. |
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> Also, I'd like to see us start saving a certain amount (percentage, |
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> etc.) of all income we are able to get. It would be nice to have for |
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> a rainy day. 10-20% maybe? Or maybe have a goal to save $XX a year |
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> and once that is reached we have a surplus to be used on a wish list. |
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> -shrug- |
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Indeed ;-) |
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Paul |
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Paul de Vrieze |
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Gentoo Developer |
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Mail: pauldv@g.o |
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Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net |
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