Re: Request for Funding our Electricity

2014-01-20 Thread Kevin Chadwick
previously on this list MJ contributed: And I hope it?s the thought that counts more than the amount. I guess it doesn't 'count' right now but does mean more and count more if he ever becomes rich. LOL, yes, especially when it comes to bills being paid. Maybe that's a stark reality

Re: Request for Funding our Electricity

2014-01-20 Thread Jeff O'Neal
On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 1:09 AM, Denis read-and-th...@yandex.ru wrote: --- 1. Branded hosting by OpenBSD project I will be first in line to pay 2x of what I am paying now to host my domain on OpenBSD platform in Canada, knowing that it is looked after (or

Re: Request for Funding our Electricity

2014-01-20 Thread Stefan Wollny
Am Mon, 20 Jan 2014 06:32:45 -0800 schrieb Jeff O'Neal jeff.on...@gmail.com: On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 1:09 AM, Denis read-and-th...@yandex.ru wrote: --- 1. Branded hosting by OpenBSD project I will be first in line to pay 2x of what I am paying now

Re: Request for Funding our Electricity

2014-01-19 Thread Denis
Hi OpenBSD team, Sorry to bring more of those annoying new ideas, but I think that might help. I will be brief :-) --- 1. Branded hosting by OpenBSD project I will be first in line to pay 2x of what I am paying now to host my domain on OpenBSD platform in

Re: Request for Funding our Electricity

2014-01-19 Thread Marc Espie
Let me be blunt about this: we already have quite enough on our plates already. I, for one, have a TODO list that reaches probably 10 years or more ahead. Besides openssh, if you *do* use OpenBSD, contributing helps the project. Speaking for myself, if you do appreciate: - having binary

Re: Request for Funding our Electricity

2014-01-19 Thread Martin Schröder
2014/1/19 Denis read-and-th...@yandex.ru: I will be first in line to pay 2x of what I am paying now to host my domain on OpenBSD platform in Canada, knowing that it is looked after (or at least periodically checked) by core developers. You want the developers to stop developing.

Re: Request for Funding our Electricity

2014-01-18 Thread Kenneth Gober
I do not doubt that emulators can be useful for some things. Indeed, I use them myself when real hardware isn't available. but emulators have limits -- invariably they are written to emulate certain things accurately (albeit imperfectly, because all programmers make mistakes) while other things

Re: Request for Funding our Electricity

2014-01-18 Thread Aram Hăvărneanu
On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 7:53 AM, Brett Lymn brett.l...@baesystems.com wrote: On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 07:33:01PM -0700, Theo de Raadt wrote: What other community has users who commonly run upstream software on 64-bit big-endian strict alignment platform with register windows adjusting the

Re: Request for Funding our Electricity

2014-01-18 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, warning: off-topic and nostalgic. Theo de Raadt wrote: Let's face it. OpenBSD has this as a bug reducing mechanism available, and most other systems do not anymore, having decided to chase only the market-chosen architectures. It is a true many-eyes machined solution. What other

Re: Request for Funding our Electricity

2014-01-18 Thread Ed Ahlsen-Girard
Dear Misc, In re electricity, please do one of the following: 1. Send money. 2. Convince OTHER PEOPLE to send money. 3. Stop summoning the Good Idea Fairy to the developers. I have seen the suggestions, and it's not that none of them could possibly work. It's that all of them

Re: Request for Funding our Electricity

2014-01-18 Thread MJ
On 18 Jan 2014, at 04.33, Theo de Raadt dera...@cvs.openbsd.org wrote: Why is there this effort to convince us to do less? I do not propagate such a train of thought; only said that if you want corporate funding then be prepared to detail your costs and justify each and every one of them

Re: Request for Funding our Electricity

2014-01-18 Thread Kent R. Spillner
I notice a lot of people have suggested use an emulator, as if that had never occurred to the OpenBSD developers before, but nobody has volunteered to verify that the available emulators are good enough to actually replace real hardware. Also, I don't understand why anyone thinks emulation

Re: Request for Funding our Electricity

2014-01-18 Thread Carl Trachte
On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 4:00 AM, Kent R. Spillner kspill...@acm.org wrote: I notice a lot of people have suggested use an emulator, as if that had never occurred to the OpenBSD developers before, but nobody has volunteered to verify that the available emulators are good enough to actually

Re: Request for Funding our Electricity

2014-01-18 Thread Marc Peters
Am 2014-01-17 16:55, schrieb Stefan Wollny: Am Fri, 17 Jan 2014 16:08:07 +0100 schrieb Lars Peter Cleary l...@publius.ch: I agree this is a very good idea, instant feedback and gratification. Nevertheless, I've just now donated CAD 100.- and invite everybody else to do the same. Kind regards

Re: Request for Funding our Electricity

2014-01-18 Thread Sia Lang
The old hardware would still run while they're validating the emulators, and that process would probably take a really long time. If the tests are as good as this project claims them to be, the process should take exactly one test cycle. If that's the case, then the test regime suck big time.

Re: Request for Funding our Electricity

2014-01-18 Thread Theo de Raadt
The old hardware would still run while they're validating the emulators, and that process would probably take a really long time. If the tests are as good as this project claims them to be, the process should take exactly one test cycle. If that's the case, then the test regime suck big

Re: Request for Funding our Electricity

2014-01-18 Thread MJ
On 18 Jan 2014, at 20.15, Jan Stary h...@stare.cz wrote: On Jan 18 16:29:46, m...@sci.fi wrote: On 18 Jan 2014, at 04.33, Theo de Raadt dera...@cvs.openbsd.org wrote: And I hope it?s the thought that counts more than the amount. LOL, yes, especially when it comes to bills being paid.

Re: Request for Funding our Electricity

2014-01-18 Thread MJ
On 19 Jan 2014, at 01.36, Jan Stary h...@stare.cz wrote: So, the 1 is the thought, and the 0 is the amount? Sorry, but your comments were so ridiculous I couldn't help it. Saying it's the thougth that counts to people who have repeated explicitly they need MONEY. There you go again with

Re: Request for Funding our Electricity

2014-01-18 Thread Kent R. Spillner
On Jan 18, 2014, at 16:25, Sia Lang silverlangu...@gmail.com wrote: If the tests are as good as this project claims them to be, the process should take exactly one test cycle. If that's the case, then the test regime suck big time. Logic brother. Logic. I don't know what tests you're

Re: Request for Funding our Electricity

2014-01-17 Thread Christer Solskogen
On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 10:25 PM, Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado i...@juanfra.info wrote: Just a side note to the people talking about emulators. Obviously, you're not tried to install OpenBSD on emulators. Basically, everything is broken except amd64 and i386. except amd64 and i386?!

Re: Request for Funding our Electricity

2014-01-17 Thread Marcus MERIGHI
Am 01/16/14 18:05, schrieb Han Hwei Woo: Rather than raising prices on CD's/T-Shirts, how about allowing for subscriptions? I've bought CD's and shirts in the past, but don't do so regularly simply as it's not something I think/remember to do at every release. However, I'd gladly signup to

Request for Funding our Electricity

2014-01-17 Thread Jan Lambertz
Pushing the subscription idea and cd set selling a litte bit further, what about a signed cd set or artwork from theo or a developer ( next hackathon ) . The time investment should be no problem and this could sell for ... 70$ or something. This is cool, no time effort, promotion easy possible (

Re: Request for Funding our Electricity

2014-01-17 Thread Kevin Chadwick
previously on this list Dag Richards contributed: I have a suggestion for every one of us that has mailed in an idea in response to a solicitaion for money... Send money. I also plan to open a ticket and will have to find time to send a short letter to the management of my hosting

Re: Request for Funding our Electricity

2014-01-17 Thread Charles RAPENNE
Le 2013-12-21 01:08, Theo de Raadt a écrit : I am resending this request for funding our electricity bills because it is not yet resolved. We really need even more funding beyond that, because otherwise all of this is simply unsustainable. This request is the smallest we can make. --- Hi

Re: Request for Funding our Electricity

2014-01-17 Thread Lars Peter Cleary
I agree this is a very good idea, instant feedback and gratification. Nevertheless, I've just now donated CAD 100.- and invite everybody else to do the same. Kind regards Lars

Re: Request for Funding our Electricity

2014-01-17 Thread Christopher Ahrens
Kevin Lyda wrote: Regarding the less architecture support to save electricity argument, I'm not sure one follows the other. Computing power has grown to a point that emulators are perfectly valid - particularly for older systems. I think a push to package and maintain emulators for many of

Re: Request for Funding our Electricity

2014-01-17 Thread Kevin Lyda
On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 8:23 PM, Christopher Ahrens n...@leviacomm.net wrote: *Instructions are executed as they should, not how they actually work That's a bug to be filed against an emulator. And it's easier to do that *now* when the older hardware is around to test for bug compatibility. And

Re: Request for Funding our Electricity

2014-01-17 Thread Chris Cappuccio
Kevin Lyda [ke...@ie.suberic.net] wrote: It's a lot easier to ask for $X/year if there's a plan for X to reduce. Yeah, right. That's how things work, right? Your family spends less each year, your work spends less each year, your government, they certainly spend less each year. And OpenBSD,

Re: Request for Funding our Electricity

2014-01-17 Thread Bill Albertson
On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 12:23 PM, Christopher Ahrens n...@leviacomm.netwrote: Kevin Lyda wrote: Regarding the less architecture support to save electricity argument, I'm not sure one follows the other. Computing power has grown to a point that emulators are perfectly valid - particularly for

Re: Request for Funding our Electricity

2014-01-17 Thread Theo de Raadt
That's a bug to be filed against an emulator. And it's easier to do that *now* when the older hardware is around to test for bug compatibility. And it's not full emulator if it doesn't emulate the bugs. We are an operating system project. We have a full set of tasks ahead of ourselves. We are

Re: Request for Funding our Electricity

2014-01-17 Thread Stefan Wollny
Am Fri, 17 Jan 2014 16:08:07 +0100 schrieb Lars Peter Cleary l...@publius.ch: I agree this is a very good idea, instant feedback and gratification. Nevertheless, I've just now donated CAD 100.- and invite everybody else to do the same. Kind regards Lars Yepp - let's face it: Until

Re: Request for Funding our Electricity

2014-01-17 Thread Miod Vallat
And it's not full emulator if it doesn't emulate the bugs. It's almost bedtime in Europe. Do you mind if I tell you a bedtime story? Years ago, a (back then) successful company selling high-end Unix-based workstations, having been designing its own systems and core components

Re: Request for Funding our Electricity

2014-01-17 Thread William Ahern
On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 11:32:41PM +, Miod Vallat wrote: And it's not full emulator if it doesn't emulate the bugs. It's almost bedtime in Europe. Do you mind if I tell you a bedtime story? Years ago, a (back then) successful company selling high-end Unix-based

Re: Request for Funding our Electricity

2014-01-17 Thread Theo de Raadt
You may argue that, since the kernel has a workaround for this issue, this is a moot point. But if some developer has a better idea for the kernel heuristic, how can the new code be tested, if not on the real hardware? The problem with this story is that the purported reasons for

Re: Request for Funding our Electricity

2014-01-17 Thread Theo de Raadt
OTOH, there's a strong case to be made for simply inventing crazy architectures out of whole cloth and writing an emulator for them. I am looking forward to seeing yours. How long do I have to wait?

Re: Request for Funding our Electricity

2014-01-17 Thread William Ahern
On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 07:33:01PM -0700, Theo de Raadt wrote: You may argue that, since the kernel has a workaround for this issue, this is a moot point. But if some developer has a better idea for the kernel heuristic, how can the new code be tested, if not on the real hardware?

Re: Request for Funding our Electricity

2014-01-17 Thread Theo de Raadt
I do use emulators, specifically for ARM, because it's just easier for me. And one of my co-workers is a contributor to the Hercules emulator. Then you know it is not sufficient for our needs, yet we keep getting the same message from some people. The emulators are too slow, or they need to be

Re: Request for Funding our Electricity

2014-01-17 Thread William Ahern
On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 08:38:05PM -0700, Theo de Raadt wrote: I do use emulators, specifically for ARM, because it's just easier for me. And one of my co-workers is a contributor to the Hercules emulator. Then you know it is not sufficient for our needs, yet we keep getting the same

Re: Request for Funding our Electricity

2014-01-17 Thread Tobias Ulmer
On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 08:10:02PM -0800, William Ahern wrote: [...] Compared to your suggestions, Die Hard 2-5 didn't contain any plot holes and made perfect sense. You are not arguing, but obviously, emulators are so much better. With just a couple of modern Xeon machines (these are free,

Re: Request for Funding our Electricity

2014-01-17 Thread Brett Lymn
On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 07:33:01PM -0700, Theo de Raadt wrote: What other community has users who commonly run upstream software on 64-bit big-endian strict alignment platform with register windows adjusting the frames in odd ways, or 32-bit big-endian ones with mutex alignment requirements,

Re: Request for Funding our Electricity

2014-01-16 Thread Maximo Pech
El 20/12/2013, a las 18:08, Theo de Raadt dera...@cvs.openbsd.org escribió: I am resending this request for funding our electricity bills because it is not yet resolved. We really need even more funding beyond that, because otherwise all of this is simply unsustainable. This request

Re: Request for Funding our Electricity

2014-01-16 Thread Theo de Raadt
Through the history of openbsd there have been architectures in which more bugs have been found and some in which fewer bugs have appeared. That is not true. Then maybe the number of bugs for an architecture can be matched to the power-on-time for the machines for that architecture. Maybe.

Re: Request for Funding our Electricity

2014-01-16 Thread Sia Lang
Virtual machines/emus and canadian cross builds should be able to reduce the amount of iron, no? On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 12:53 PM, Theo de Raadt dera...@cvs.openbsd.orgwrote: Through the history of openbsd there have been architectures in which more bugs have been found and some in which

Re: Request for Funding our Electricity

2014-01-16 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 08:14:24PM +0100, Peter J. Philipp said that # pkg_add somepackage ... This package's buildtime was generously donated by Peter J. Philipp. # ads in openbsd? you must be out of your mind. what next, adblock for openbsd? -f -- why do they call it a tv set when

Re: Request for Funding our Electricity

2014-01-16 Thread Luca Ferrari
On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 1:10 PM, Sia Lang silverlangu...@gmail.com wrote: Virtual machines/emus and canadian cross builds should be able to reduce the amount of iron, no? I don't think virtual machines are the solution: I see them as another buggy ecosystem on which developers will try to

Re: Request for Funding our Electricity

2014-01-16 Thread Gregor Best
On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 09:55:04PM +, Franchini Fabien wrote: [...] I suggest to write a letter to theses companies who are known to using OpenBSD or other product-related like OpenSSH. In this letter we can explain (as the first post from Theo) our issue. I'm sure they can give us an

Re: Request for Funding our Electricity

2014-01-16 Thread Kevin Chadwick
The installer or man page asks for donations, how about the ssh login banner or initial output which might get perhaps 100s of thousands more eyefall? -- ___ 'Write programs that do one thing and do it well. Write programs to

Re: Request for Funding our Electricity

2014-01-16 Thread Han Hwei Woo
Rather than raising prices on CD's/T-Shirts, how about allowing for subscriptions? I've bought CD's and shirts in the past, but don't do so regularly simply as it's not something I think/remember to do at every release. However, I'd gladly signup to purchase a CD and T-Shirt every release on

Re: Request for Funding our Electricity

2014-01-16 Thread patrick keshishian
On 1/16/14, Kevin Chadwick ma1l1i...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: The installer or man page asks for donations, how about the ssh login banner or initial output which might get perhaps 100s of thousands more eyefall? I see where this is headed: In app purchases! e.g., after couple of failed

Re: Request for Funding our Electricity

2014-01-16 Thread Daniel Cegiełka
http://goteo.org/project/gnupg-new-website-and-infrastructure Why do not you do such a campaign? Wow.. new website and infrastructure for GnuPG. Result: more then 24k USD in three weeks. So where OpenBSD/OpenSSH are worse than GnuPG? Guys, your problem is not the OpenBSD foundation, but the total

Re: Request for Funding our Electricity

2014-01-16 Thread Jack Woehr
Daniel Cegiełka wrote: http://goteo.org/project/gnupg-new-website-and-infrastructure Why do not you do such a campaign? I think Theo has answered this previously. His point was that he doesn't want to spend his time year after year running campaigns. Being neither a politician nor a diplomat

Re: Request for Funding our Electricity

2014-01-16 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Thu, 16 Jan 2014 09:09:09 -0800 patrick keshishian wrote: The installer or man page asks for donations, how about the ssh login banner or initial output which might get perhaps 100s of thousands more eyefall? I see where this is headed: In app purchases! e.g., after couple of

Re: Request for Funding our Electricity

2014-01-16 Thread Daniel Cegiełka
2014/1/16 Jack Woehr jwo...@softwoehr.com: Daniel Cegiełka wrote: http://goteo.org/project/gnupg-new-website-and-infrastructure Why do not you do such a campaign? I think Theo has answered this previously. His point was that he doesn't want to spend his time year after year running

Re: Request for Funding our Electricity

2014-01-16 Thread Bob Beck
On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 10:58 AM, Daniel Cegiełka daniel.cegie...@gmail.com wrote: Another example: Google will pay even more than $3000 for finding an error in OpenSSH (Core infrastructure network services) - do they know about your problems?

Re: Request for Funding our Electricity

2014-01-16 Thread Jeff Zellman
On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 09:05:24AM -0800, Han Hwei Woo wrote: Rather than raising prices on CD's/T-Shirts, how about allowing for subscriptions? I've bought CD's and shirts in the past, but don't do so regularly simply as it's not something I think/remember to do at every release. However, I'd

Re: Request for Funding our Electricity

2014-01-16 Thread MJ
On 16 Jan 2014, at 19.45, Jack Woehr jwo...@softwoehr.com wrote: I think Theo has answered this previously. His point was that he doesn't want to spend his time year after year running campaigns. Being neither a politician nor a diplomat nor a grantmaster, he wants a sustainable model.

Request for Funding our Electricity

2014-01-16 Thread Jan Lambertz
I like the subscription idea. I'd love to have every release without actually doing the shopping every time. This could at least make a bit of safe money. I believe, making a company sending 20k$ every year to openbsd could be quite difficult. Why should they do this ? What do they get ? Why is

Re: Request for Funding our Electricity

2014-01-16 Thread Joshua Smith
+1 for the subscription idea. Not that it completely solves the problem at hand. But a great (IMHO) idea. -- Josh Smith KD8HRX Email/jabber: juice...@gmail.com Phone: 304.237.9369(c) Sent from my iPhone. On Jan 16, 2014, at 2:34 PM, Jan Lambertz jd.arb...@googlemail.com wrote: I like

Re: Request for Funding our Electricity

2014-01-16 Thread Jack Woehr
Bob Beck wrote: so it's not a source of sustainable funding, unless we were to do something like introduce an annual quota of bugs http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/1995-11-13/ -- Jack Woehr # We commonly say we have no time when, Box 51, Golden CO 80402 # of course, we have all

Re: Request for Funding our Electricity

2014-01-16 Thread Christopher Ahrens
Then maybe the number of bugs for an architecture can bematched to the power-on-time for the machines for that architecture. So your solution is to replace requiring financial donations to requiring more hardware donations? Cold boots are by far the biggest cause of hardware failure, this

Re: Request for Funding our Electricity

2014-01-16 Thread Theo de Raadt
Then maybe the number of bugs for an architecture can bematched to the power-on-time for the machines for that architecture. So your solution is to replace requiring financial donations to requiring more hardware donations? Cold boots are by far the biggest cause of hardware failure, this

Re: Request for Funding our Electricity

2014-01-16 Thread Daniel Ouellet
Just my $0.02 worth. OpenBSD asked for help. Why everything we see is change this, change that, etc. Like they don't know what they are doing for the last 20 years! Either we can help or we can't. But please stop trying to tell everyone how to do what they do best for the last 20 years like

Re: Request for Funding our Electricity

2014-01-16 Thread Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado
On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 01:10:05PM +0100, Sia Lang wrote: Virtual machines/emus and canadian cross builds should be able to reduce the amount of iron, no? Just a side note to the people talking about emulators. Obviously, you're not tried to install OpenBSD on emulators. Basically, everything

Re: Request for Funding our Electricity

2014-01-16 Thread Christopher Ahrens
Gregor Best wrote: On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 09:55:04PM +, Franchini Fabien wrote: [...] I suggest to write a letter to theses companies who are known to using OpenBSD or other product-related like OpenSSH. In this letter we can explain (as the first post from Theo) our issue. I'm sure they

Re: Request for Funding our Electricity

2014-01-16 Thread Steven Chamberlain
I've set up a small recurring donation for now. I'd like to throw out some ideas and questions if I may: * Anyone selling an OpenBSD-based solution to business customers might want to imagine the OS has some sort of 'license fee', increase the quote for their work accordingly, and pass along the

Re: Request for Funding our Electricity

2014-01-16 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2014-01-16, Sia Lang silverlangu...@gmail.com wrote: Virtual machines/emus and canadian cross builds should be able to reduce the amount of iron, no? Try following http://www.openbsd.org/vax-simh.html. Then observe your cpu usage figures and, if you are able to measure it, the power

Re: Request for Funding our Electricity

2014-01-16 Thread Dag Richards
I have a suggestion for every one of us that has mailed in an idea in response to a solicitaion for money... Send money. Just do it right now, write a cheque. Send it, send it now. Do that a couple of times a year. Buy a cd twice a year, get at least one t-shirt with each order. Were we told

Re: Request for Funding our Electricity

2014-01-15 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, Loganaden Velvindron wrote: OpenSSH wouldn't be reliable if it wasn't tested on HPPA and sparc64: (I'm pretty sure I saw a bunch of commits wrt to alignment issues that were discovered on HPPA or sparc64 for OpenSSH). being myself a developer of several applications, I can only praise

Re: Request for Funding our Electricity

2014-01-15 Thread Romain FABBRI - Alien Consulting
...@openbsd.org] De la part de Theo de Raadt Envoyé : mercredi 15 janvier 2014 02:36 À : Nicolai Cc : misc@openbsd.org Objet : Re: Request for Funding our Electricity Nicolai, and others, I'd like to take the opportunity to thank all of those stepping up to the call for contributions. Every little bit helps

Re: Request for Funding our Electricity

2014-01-15 Thread Luca Ferrari
On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 9:18 PM, Bob Beck b...@openbsdfoundation.org wrote: And actually, if you're reading this, you can help by passing this on to people you know *off these lists*. Is it worth to post a call for support on the official website front-page (and the foundation one too)? Just to

Re: Request for Funding our Electricity

2014-01-15 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2014-01-15, Romain FABBRI - Alien Consulting romain.fab...@alienconsulting.net wrote: It's been a while I want to buy Tshirts and sweatshirts but they never are available (right size for some, total availability for others). I mean if CD's and shirts do weight for a third of the the

Re: Request for Funding our Electricity

2014-01-15 Thread Berger Steffan
On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 04:56:14PM -0600, Kent R. Spillner wrote: Anyways, talk is cheap so I'm going to go make a donation now. If everyone reading this did the same this thread could die, and OpenBSD wouldn't. i've just spent a few dollars and I try to do it more often. Nevertheless, it is

Re: Request for Funding our Electricity

2014-01-15 Thread Franchini Fabien
Steffan [berger...@wolfman.devio.us] Envoyé : mercredi 15 janvier 2014 13:13 À : misc@openbsd.org Objet : Re: Request for Funding our Electricity On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 04:56:14PM -0600, Kent R. Spillner wrote: Anyways, talk is cheap so I'm going to go make a donation now. If everyone reading

Re: Request for Funding our Electricity

2014-01-15 Thread Bob Beck
Yes, I believe so - and we'll be ramping that up shortly . but realisticly the need is for donations in general - electricity is one thing that the funding can be applied to. On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 3:27 AM, Luca Ferrari fluca1...@infinito.it wrote: On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 9:18 PM, Bob Beck

Re: Request for Funding our Electricity

2014-01-15 Thread Gilles LAMIRAL
Dear Theo, Don't we do enough? You already do too much. Regarding the swag. The entire OpenBSD project now probably gets 1/4 of revenue out of CD Why don't you do for the website software downloads what you do for the CDs? Make users pay the downloads from the official website as you

Re: Request for Funding our Electricity

2014-01-15 Thread MJ
On 15 Jan 2014, at 16.35, Gilles LAMIRAL gilles.lami...@laposte.net wrote: Dear Theo, Don't we do enough? You already do too much. I have long held the opinion that Theo is probably the best coder on this planet. That’s not any sort of ass-kissing, either, it’s my objective, unbiased

Re: Request for Funding our Electricity

2014-01-15 Thread matteo filippetto
15 EUR donation Thanks devs for your great work! -- Matteo Filippetto http://www.op83.eu

Re: Request for Funding our Electricity

2014-01-15 Thread agrquinonez
On 15/01/14 08:25 AM, MJ wrote: On 15 Jan 2014, at 16.35, Gilles LAMIRAL gilles.lami...@laposte.net wrote: Dear Theo, Don't we do enough? You already do too much. I have long held the opinion that Theo is probably the best coder on this planet. That’s not any sort of ass-kissing, either,

Re: Request for Funding our Electricity

2014-01-15 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Tue, 14 Jan 2014 17:28:19 -0700 (MST) Theo de Raadt wrote: That's a great idea. I'm going drag a subgroup of the developers away from software development and we'll start working on that instead. Right away. To fund the drilling, we'll hold a bake sale. Fair enough just thought the

Re: Request for Funding our Electricity

2014-01-15 Thread Kevin Chadwick
previously on this list agrquinonez contributed: The other idea, is Members, every one of us could give five dollars per month to keep the privilege of using OpenBSD; receiving information, participating in the list, etc. I think that would strangle the project and possibly prevent future

Re: Request for Funding our Electricity

2014-01-15 Thread Sia Lang
Theo, In situations like this, it might be a good idea to come down from your high horse (it's a mostly irrelevant OS anyway) and start treating people offering ideas - good or bad- with some f*cking respect. I fortunately read through the thread before NOT donating. That small donation

Re: Request for Funding our Electricity

2014-01-15 Thread Martin Schröder
2014/1/15 Sia Lang silverlangu...@gmail.com: That small donation wouldn't have amounted to much, but I am positive you being the leader of this project is the very reason no one wants to step up with serious funding. Him being the leader is the very reason this project still exists. Best

Re: Request for Funding our Electricity

2014-01-15 Thread Bryan Vyhmeister
On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 07:41:03PM +0100, Martin Schröder wrote: Him being the leader is the very reason this project still exists. The thing about OpenBSD is that it has a very clear and strong focus. This comes from clear and strong leadership. Is Theo right on everything? Of course not. None

Re: Request for Funding our Electricity

2014-01-15 Thread Peter J. Philipp
On 01/15/14 19:41, Martin Schröder wrote: 2014/1/15 Sia Lang silverlangu...@gmail.com: That small donation wouldn't have amounted to much, but I am positive you being the leader of this project is the very reason no one wants to step up with serious funding. Him being the leader is the very

Re: Request for Funding our Electricity

2014-01-15 Thread agrquinonez
On 15/01/14 10:31 AM, Kevin Chadwick wrote: previously on this list agrquinonez contributed: The other idea, is Members, every one of us could give five dollars per month to keep the privilege of using OpenBSD; receiving information, participating in the list, etc. I think that would

Re: Request for Funding our Electricity

2014-01-15 Thread Andres Perera
On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 2:44 PM, Peter J. Philipp p...@centroid.eu wrote: On 01/15/14 19:41, Martin Schröder wrote: 2014/1/15 Sia Lang silverlangu...@gmail.com: That small donation wouldn't have amounted to much, but I am positive you being the leader of this project is the very reason no one

Re: Request for Funding our Electricity

2014-01-15 Thread Paulo Manoel Mafra
Hi guys, how about produce energy (solar energy, wind power generators, etc) ? Has anyone some idea if it is possible and its cost ? Maybe someone can donate this kind of material... On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 11:22:47AM -0800, agrquinonez wrote: * On 15/01/14 10:31 AM, Kevin Chadwick wrote: *

Re: Request for Funding our Electricity

2014-01-15 Thread Gabriel Guzman
On 01/14, Theo de Raadt wrote: Nicolai, and others, I'd like to take the opportunity to thank all of those stepping up to the call for contributions. Every little bit helps. For those who ask, the OpenBSD Foundation is the best path for contributions. I hope some larger contributors

Re: Request for Funding our Electricity

2014-01-15 Thread Chris Bennett
On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 06:25:53PM +0200, MJ wrote: On 15 Jan 2014, at 16.35, Gilles LAMIRAL gilles.lami...@laposte.net wrote: Dear Theo, Don't we do enough? You already do too much. I have long held the opinion that Theo is probably the best coder on this planet. That’s not

Re: Request for Funding our Electricity

2014-01-15 Thread Franchini Fabien
Hello, It seems that my idea was not read and in my opinion the discussion turns in a wrong way. I don't believe that donations and/or a kind of rent will solve our problem in long-term (as Theo says in a previous mail). I'm pretty sure that the majority of companies doesn't read undeadly.org

Re: Request for Funding our Electricity

2014-01-15 Thread Vincent Gross
On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 06:25:53PM +0200, MJ wrote: I have long held the opinion that Theo is probably the best coder on this planet. That?s not any sort of ass-kissing, either, it?s my objective, unbiased opinion. And I know Henning personally, as in ?live and worked together with him -

Re: Request for Funding our Electricity

2014-01-15 Thread j
How about a $10 tax on top-posters. A little more seriously, you might get some professional help from a university or charity development officer. These people raise money for a living. Ask some for some advice. One of the issues will be: financial statements for the organization. It's

Re: Request for Funding our Electricity

2014-01-14 Thread Bob Beck
in electrical expenses before being able to use money for other things. That sort of situation is not sustainable. On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 5:08 PM, Theo de Raadt dera...@cvs.openbsd.org wrote: I am resending this request for funding our electricity bills because it is not yet resolved. We really

Re: Request for Funding our Electricity

2014-01-14 Thread Bob Beck
expenses before being able to use money for other things. That sort of situation is not sustainable. On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 5:08 PM, Theo de Raadt dera...@cvs.openbsd.org wrote: I am resending this request for funding our electricity bills because it is not yet resolved. We really need

Re: Request for Funding our Electricity

2014-01-14 Thread Donald Allen
that acknowledges reality would really be a shame. /Don Allen On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 5:08 PM, Theo de Raadt dera...@cvs.openbsd.org wrote: I am resending this request for funding our electricity bills because it is not yet resolved. We really need even more funding beyond that, because otherwise

Re: Request for Funding our Electricity

2014-01-14 Thread Theo de Raadt
On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 3:03 PM, Bob Beck b...@openbsdfoundation.org wrote: Just to bring this issue back to the forefront. In light of shrinking funding, we do need to look for a source to cover project expenses. If need be the OpenBSD Foundation can be involved in receiving

Re: Request for Funding our Electricity

2014-01-14 Thread patric conant
How about we hold a bake sale? On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 2:56 PM, Theo de Raadt dera...@cvs.openbsd.orgwrote: On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 3:03 PM, Bob Beck b...@openbsdfoundation.org wrote: Just to bring this issue back to the forefront. In light of shrinking funding, we do need to

Re: Request for Funding our Electricity

2014-01-14 Thread Miod Vallat
Yes, we remove about 10 of the architectures. We'd slowly lose the developers who like to work on those areas. They also work in other areas, but ... I suspect they would another BSD that supports them. Darn' tootin'! Anyone want to suggest we hold a bake sale? Make that a lo-carb bake

Re: Request for Funding our Electricity

2014-01-14 Thread Kirill Bychkov
a company Theo was mentioning in his irst letter. On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 5:08 PM, Theo de Raadt dera...@cvs.openbsd.org wrote: I am resending this request for funding our electricity bills because it is not yet resolved. We really need even more funding beyond that, because otherwise all

Re: Request for Funding our Electricity

2014-01-14 Thread Bob Beck
letter. On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 5:08 PM, Theo de Raadt dera...@cvs.openbsd.org wrote: I am resending this request for funding our electricity bills because it is not yet resolved. We really need even more funding beyond that, because otherwise all of this is simply unsustainable

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