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I like Grant's idea, but Kurt has a good point of the way things currently |
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run. However, if we were to stike gold someday, it wouldn't be a bad idea |
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to become more self sufficient with some servers, just for the luxury of |
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having a vendor warranty on all boxen and hopefully avoid some of the "crap, |
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a hard drive failed!". Before anyone thinks I'm jumping the gun, let me say |
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that this is not a priority when it comes to our initial budget.. :) |
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As we are designing policies and the such, keep in mind that we need to be |
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as flexible as the open source project we are serving. So, if we were to |
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budget things out to groups on a regular basis, it might not be the best |
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idea because the needs of those groups will fluctuate. |
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Also, I'd like to see us start saving a certain amount (percentage, etc.) of |
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all income we are able to get. It would be nice to have for a rainy day. |
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10-20% maybe? Or maybe have a goal to save $XX a year and once that is |
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reached we have a surplus to be used on a wish list. -shrug- |
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Cheers! |
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-Corey |
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-----Original Message----- |
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From: Kurt Lieber [mailto:klieber@g.o] |
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Sent: Sunday, May 23, 2004 5:33 PM |
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To: gentoo-trustees@l.g.o |
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-trustees] How are we going to spend money? |
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On Sun, May 23, 2004 at 10:24:35AM -0400 or thereabouts, Grant Goodyear |
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wrote: |
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> I suspect that right now the majority of money spent by Gentoo is on |
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> infra stuff. I would be very much in favor of giving infra a yearly |
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> sum of money (or, more practically, a fraction of our income) that |
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> they can spend as they see fit, requiring a yearly expense report and |
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> review, instead of having the trustees needing to vote on every single |
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expense. |
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Outside of the occasional "crap...a hard drive failed and we need a |
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replacement ASAP" or "lark needs more RAM", infra subsists entirely on |
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donated resources. I believe lark was purchased originally at a discount |
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courtesy of pfeifer's old company, but all our other machines are donated. |
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--kurt |
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