On Fri, Apr 03, 2015 at 10:10:11PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Luca Filipozzi <lfili...@debian.org> [2015-04-03 08:57 +0200]: > > I'm prepared to accept pro-forma invoices from commercial organizations, > > based on their published pricing. Although it could be argued that > > 1RU/1Gbps of hosting is the same no matter the location of the data centre, > > the reality is that pricing varies widely and attempting to normalize > > across markets is untenable. In other words, my measuring stick is "what > > would it have cost Debian to put a server in that data centre, based on the > > published pricing". > > > > For academic institutions, we can find a corresponding commercial provider > > in their jurisdiction / country, perhaps. > > Absolutely, iff we need the hosting, then we can rank it according to market > price.
All of Debian's equipment is hosted gratis by one organization or other. > However — I am not aware of prices for the type and volume of > hosting required — but I'd be surprised if it'd slot in to the > levels I'm imagining. I mean, look at > https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/donate/sponsors.shtml and think > about the market price of some of the hosting offers we get. At > most, they'd probably reach Bronze, if at all. And yet, it might > just be that the admins there give us special access or support > because they also use Debian etc. and suddenly you cannot weigh it > up against purely financial support anymore. > > So I don't think the solution is quite that simple and I think we > shouldn't rule out the possibility to just name in-kind donations as > such, rather than to slot them in with financial scales. I'm not opposed to separate in-kind and cash donation rankings. > > Finding a single service capable of providing crowdrise-like > > features AND a very wide variety of payment mechanisms may prove > > difficult. That said, we can begin our search with this as > > a requirement. > > I'm new to crowdrise. What's the story? It's not that I'm a proponent of crowdrise in particular. Rather, it's the feature set that's appealing. There are several operators of similar tools. > And couldn't crowdrise itself be (convinced to be) interested in > supporting Debian by waiving commissions on incoming donations? I doubt it: their business model is to offer non-profits a service. -- Luca Filipozzi http://www.crowdrise.com/SupportDebian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150403210249.ga27...@emyr.net