On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 8:16 AM, Shaun McCance <sha...@gnome.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-11-15 at 22:44 -0800, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: > > > > Let me add one other position. We need to hire another sysadmin > > person. Along the same community support, we need to also be able to > > have the infrastructure to support coming out with daily builds for > > the community to test out and give feedback on the new designs that > > come out. Bug testing and performance testing as well so that we have > > a quality product. If we are serious about doing GNOME OS we are > > going to need to upgrade our infrastructure. We will need to do fund > > raising to be able get the right hardware and the right person to > > manage it. > > I do appreciate that both of these positions could be beneficial to > GNOME, but please understand that employees are expensive, and the > GNOME Foundation has a relatively small budget. > > Fundraising campaigns do not bring in the kinds of money you need > to hire full-time employees. They're OK for short-term or part-time > contract work. > > I was thinking fundraising more for the hardware than the person. Sorry if that wasn't clear. While the hardware is a one time cost, the support contract is not and we will be required to pay for that. sri > -- > Shaun > > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-list mailing list > foundation-list@gnome.org > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list >
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