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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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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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Wkr, |
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Sven Vermeulen |
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