On Sun, May 22, 2005 at 04:09:58PM +0000, Kurt Lieber wrote:
> We can certainly reduce the amount of advertisements on the home page, but
> we will probably need to keep some around, at least for the near future.
> While we have a lot of infrastructure and bandwidth provided by OSU and IU,
> it's still important to have at least a couple of other geographic
> locations where we can house a server or two.  Those servers, along with
> their bandwidth and M&E costs, have typically been paid for through the
> advertisements on our front page.

On Sun, May 22, 2005 at 11:27:17AM -0500, Lance Albertson wrote:
> Right now I'd like to at least keep the ads for folks providing us
> hosting and bandwidth as these ads have definately helped them pay for
> our costs and potentially adding more hardware/bandwidth to use. One
> example is that Sevenl.net should be hopefully moving to a 100Mbit
> connection, and much of it is thanks to our ad giving them more
> exposure.


Okay, I can totally understand this. Now what if some hosting company is
proposing to host Gentoo infrastructure or provide bandwidth for us, when is
it eligible to be forwarded to the infrastructure project and Foundation?

For instance, do we have a place where our current "needs" are displayed or
where I can find some numbers that I can show to the prospects so they can
see what we are really looking for (what bandwidth and such)?

Because frankly, someone who wants an advertisement because he is able to
host Gentoo boxes on a shared 1 Mbps line is probably not to be taken into
account.

Wkr,
      Sven Vermeulen


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