On Monday 15 March 2010, John Griessen wrote: >Ales Hvezda wrote: >> "problem with for-pay servers is users are motivated, they help >> pay for a few months, then no more" >> "so any decisions that affect $$ need to account for probably >> Ales paying for it out of pocket" >> >> I have absolutely no issues with removing me as a "single point of >> failure", however, if you people want to do it then put up the *cash*, >> time, and get some buy-in from all people doing the development work. > >When my friends on the metalartists.org list lost the previous server >and I started a mailman server for them they donated money via paypal >to get to paid up for a year and a half after just a week. It might >not be hard, even with this bunch to get virtual server money. >For OpenVZ on Quantact.com servers you'd need to budget $30/month >for the level of RAM needed to run mailman. These prices might even >drop some as things progress, since some web hosters, (Network Solns), >with canned web-app packages (not root accounts), now run at $11/month. > >I'm good for $20 for server support -- I expect that to go for >a years worth after asking the rest of the people that care to contribute. > >So now the question is "Who else will pledge money?". > >John
I am just a lurker generally, but I think Ales has done a good job those times when I grabbed the next 'generation' of this stuff, it seems to have a minimum of the PIMA content most such projects seem to have an abundance of, with SF being the most prominent in my limited experience as I have repo write access there on one of the legacy computer OS projects & it loves to forget my pw on a random basis. If Ales & all vote to setup the NP thing, even if it still runs on Ales's servers and a few bucks a month is needed to compensate Ales (or whoever might succeed should something happen, then I am sure my card could get $20/year lighter for as long as I'm around. Just set it up and post the donate site URL here. However, since I'm both 75 and diabetic, I have no warranty of being here tomorrow, but today I'm good. Basically, somebody needs to pay the energy bill in any event. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am. -- Samuel Johnson _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user