Re: gEDA-user: if you people want to do it then put up the *cash*

[Florian Teply <usenet@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday 15 March 2010 16:50:18 John Griessen wrote:
> Ales Hvezda wrote:
> > 	"problem with for-pay servers is users are motivated, they help
> > 	  pay for a few months, then no more"
> > 	"so any decisions that affect $$ need to account for probably
> > 	  Ales paying for it out of pocket"
> >
> > I have absolutely no issues with removing me as a "single point of
> > failure", however, if you people want to do it then put up the *cash*,
> > time, and get some buy-in from all people doing the development work.
> 
> When my friends on the metalartists.org list lost the previous server
> and I started a mailman server for them they donated money via paypal
> to get to paid up for a year and a half after just a week.  It might
> not be hard, even with this bunch to get virtual server money.
> For OpenVZ on Quantact.com servers you'd need to budget $30/month
> for the level of RAM needed to run mailman.  These prices might even
> drop some as things progress, since some web hosters, (Network Solns),
> with canned web-app packages (not root accounts), now run at $11/month.
> 
> I'm good for $20 for server support -- I expect that to go for
> a years worth after asking the rest of the people that care to contribute.
> 
> So now the question is "Who else will pledge money?".
> 
count me in as well. Would hate to have to open a paypal account for that, but 
i guess i could talk one of the other guys within euro-zone into serving as a 
hub... ;-)

Greets,
Florian


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