Hi Everyone I am not much of a programmer yet. I just sit in the background watching you folks.... I sell used laboratory equipment. I am always scanning the auctions looking for liquidated equipment to buy. There are often I.T auctions too. If you wanted me to watch for a server and report back, I can, if so to whom? With laboratory equipment the liquidated value is about 5-40% of the new equipment. A item that is $500 new might sell for 5% of that, a $40K item might sell for about $20-25% and a 100K item might retain 40% of it's. These are just rough estimates. I don't deal in I.T equipment but I would imagine it would devalue faster then laboratory equipment. I don't know what the budget is but $800-1000 would probably buy a real kick-ass server. Just let me know if I can help-Patrick Sven Neumann wrote: > Hi, > > the GIMP project has a steady flow of donations coming in. Not much, but > the amount has increased since the 2.4 release was made and since the > gimp.org website features the "Make a Donation" button more prominently. > > Until now we have spent this money mainly on the annual GIMP developers > conference which has taken place at the Library Graphics Meeting in the > last years. We have also spent a small amount of money on hardware (if > Yosh ever collected this money at all). > > I think this is good and we should continue to use the money in this > spirit. We urgently have to get new hardware for ftp.gimp.org and the > next LGM is coming. But I estimate that we should have some money left. > So let's discuss how to use it. > > I would like to propose that we use it to bring GIMP developers together > in an effort to motivate people to work on the tasks that are important > to bring GIMP ahead. I can imagine that it would help a lot if someone > who wants to work on a larger feature gets a chance to meet with Peter > and Kamila to discuss the user interaction. And to talk to Mitch to get > some hands-on tips on the code that will have to be touched. Or if a > handful of documenters could meet for a weekend to improve the user > manual. Or if GIMP and GEGL developers could get together for a few days > to get the integration going. > > Conferences are often too packed to actually go into details or to work > on the code. They are important, but I think it would be nice if we > would also be able to fund some smaller meetings that focus on getting > work done. What do you think? How could this work in practice? > > > Sven > > > _______________________________________________ > Gimp-developer mailing list > Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer > > _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
