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On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 04:32:24PM -0400, Rich Freeman wrote: |
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> On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 4:17 PM Alec Warner <antarus@g.o> wrote: |
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> > |
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> > Is it against the social contract to purchase these CDN services? |
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> > Is it against the social contract to purchase these CDN services, even if the services are provided via open source software? |
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> IMO the obvious answer to the second question is that purchasing |
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> services that are provided using FOSS is absolutely permitted by the |
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> social contract. Obviously we should be careful with money, but we're |
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> allowed to spend money on services and in fact have done so in other |
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> cases (like paying for a bug bounty, for accounting services, etc - |
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> generally all using FOSS where it exists). |
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How much of the CDN provider's stack must be FOSS? |
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- Just the CDN software? |
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- The billing stack? |
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- everything in the company? |
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> I realize that you didn't want to get into the fiscal argument, but |
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> I'd toss in my two cents here: it seems like we have a lot of orgs |
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> that donate servers/etc and I know we're always getting requests on |
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> pr@ for "sponsors" (usually cash for SEO, but maybe some could offer |
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> actual hosting). I actually like depending on donations in kind a lot |
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> more than money because it tends to keep the org rooted in what serves |
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> the broader FOSS/etc community vs being an org that handles a lot of |
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> cash which can sometimes lose perspective. |
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Speaking as treasurer, In-kind donations require different handling than |
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Cash Donations; they're actually somewhere I feel we have some exposure |
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in case of future audit, because past in-kind sponsors generally did not |
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provide us with a good statement of the value of those in-kind services, |
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that might be needed for tax purposes. |
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However, I'd like to ask: What about donations of CDN services specifically? |
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CDN77 is one of the present sponsors (see my other mail in this thread). |
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I've been trying to reach out to Fastly (unsucessfully) to get a |
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sponsorship from them: their stack is based on Varnish, and offers |
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functionality that CDN77 doesn't: lots more endpoints, IPv6, API for |
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uploading certs |
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> -- |
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> Rich |
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Robin Hugh Johnson |
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Gentoo Linux: Dev, Infra Lead, Foundation Treasurer |
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E-Mail : robbat2@g.o |
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