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On Sun, 2005-05-22 at 19:33 +0200, Sven Vermeulen wrote: |
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> On Sun, May 22, 2005 at 04:09:58PM +0000, Kurt Lieber wrote: |
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> > We can certainly reduce the amount of advertisements on the home page, but |
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> > we will probably need to keep some around, at least for the near future. |
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> > While we have a lot of infrastructure and bandwidth provided by OSU and IU, |
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> > it's still important to have at least a couple of other geographic |
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> > locations where we can house a server or two. Those servers, along with |
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> > their bandwidth and M&E costs, have typically been paid for through the |
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> > advertisements on our front page. |
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> On Sun, May 22, 2005 at 11:27:17AM -0500, Lance Albertson wrote: |
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> > Right now I'd like to at least keep the ads for folks providing us |
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> > hosting and bandwidth as these ads have definately helped them pay for |
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> > our costs and potentially adding more hardware/bandwidth to use. One |
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> > example is that Sevenl.net should be hopefully moving to a 100Mbit |
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> > connection, and much of it is thanks to our ad giving them more |
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> > exposure. |
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> |
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> Okay, I can totally understand this. Now what if some hosting company is |
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> proposing to host Gentoo infrastructure or provide bandwidth for us, when is |
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> it eligible to be forwarded to the infrastructure project and Foundation? |
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> For instance, do we have a place where our current "needs" are displayed or |
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> where I can find some numbers that I can show to the prospects so they can |
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> see what we are really looking for (what bandwidth and such)? |
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> Because frankly, someone who wants an advertisement because he is able to |
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> host Gentoo boxes on a shared 1 Mbps line is probably not to be taken into |
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> account. |
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Hrm, This is true. I thought there was something on the sponsors [1] |
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page about this, but apparently not. Make a bug and assign it to me and |
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I'll see about making an addition to that page that has requirements and |
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some guidelines for it. Generally in the past, someone would email |
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either me or Kurt about providing such hardware. If we felt that we |
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needed it and could use, then we would go on from there. If they asked |
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to have some kind of ad on our page, we would only do that depending on |
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the level of things they offered to us. i.e. - if they provided a bunch |
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of bandwidth/hardware/support, they would definately get exposure on our |
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main page. |
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[1] http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/sponsors.xml |
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Lance Albertson <ramereth@g.o> |
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Gentoo Infrastructure | Operations Manager |
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