On Monday 05 April 2004 10:28, Chris Spencer wrote: > I mention this from the point of view that the project needs to get > some funding. Corporate sponsorship seems like a potential avenue to > bring in some of that funding. > > We also really need a management team to guide the process. Some of > these roles are being filled, some are not. > > We have a common goal and Jesse has stepped up to lead the project > but we need official leaders for all aspects of this project. > > I personally don't have a problem with offering up a subscription > "donation" to help cover the cost of bandwidth or to even cover some > of the time that people put in to QA. > > It should be a non-profit organization that should be able to do > these things. > > Paypal will gladly collect up donations. > > The way I see it, for this project to really work and succeed it > seems pretty clear that it's going to take some form of enticement > for certain key people to stay involved or others to get more > involved. I appreciate your concern and offer, however I had always wanted Fedora Legacy to be a free (as in speech/beer) and open project. I do not want to set up a subscription service, there are other companies that are doing that. I wanted to provide a service free of charge, but community supported. That said, I will not turn down donations, as long as I have something project related to put them towards. Our bandwidth costs may be a moot point soon, and thus far I have had hardware donations for a dedicated download server (single opteron, 512megs of ram, 2x250gig SATA disks in software mirror), and a build system (dual opteron, 1gig of ram, 4x 36gig disks in software raid 10). Hosting/bandwidth for the build server is taken care of, as well as system monitoring, and I'm working on hosting/bandwidth for the download server. I've also had a p4 workstation donated to the project that I'm using currently as a local build system at my house. With these donations, our project is just about set for hardware/bandwidth costs. I don't currently have anything project related that I could spend the donations on. I do appreciate the offer though, and next time the project has a need for something, I'll ask the list again. But I do not want any user/member of Fedora Legacy to feel obligated to donate any mount of money/hardware. -- Jesse Keating RHCE Pogo Linux -- Linux Systems Engineer tel: (888) 828-7646 ex: 436
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