Re: [gentoo-nfp] Re: foundation update...

[Chris Gianelloni]

On Mon, 2005-09-12 at 11:27 -0500, Grant Goodyear wrote:
> that we can earn interest.  In my opinion, the first item on the agenda
> should be our infrastructure.  What's needed, and what can we
> legitimately provide?  Certainly I would think we should be able to
> afford spare drives, but I'm sure that there's more that we need.
> Should we just have an annual budget for infra, and let them make the
> decisions?  That's probably what I would prefer.

I think an annual budget would be good, but it might add extra overhead
to the infra team, since we would need accurate accounting of what
exactly they're spending the money on.  If they're cool with that extra
work, then I'd see no reason for *not* doing it.

I'd like to suggest that we invest in some developer hardware.  We have
some very nice developer boxes available for many architectures,
provided by both our sponsors and developers.  What we do *not* have is
a beefy "x86" developer box for people to bang on.  This is actually a
requirement for being a "supported" architecture, and unless we can get
a nice box donated for this cause, I'd say it would be money well spent
from the Foundation.

> The store has been oursourced to cafepress, and is mostly running
> itself.  It would be good to have a trustee (and a backup) dedicated to
> handling store issues; anybody want to volunteer?  So far we've been
> informally answering e-mails as they come along.

One quick question on this.  Where's 2005.1?  The longer the delay from
release to store availability, the less likely it is to generate revenue
for the Foundation.  Does this stuff *need* to come from a trustee, or
could someone else send in the release media to Cafepress?

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Chris Gianelloni
Release Engineering - Strategic Lead/QA Manager
Games - Developer
Gentoo Linux