On Sat, 28 Apr 2007 14:21:36 -0500, Justin S. Leitgeb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'd like to hear other member opinions on this issue as I think it's a > really critical one for the Coop to address as soon as possible. Thanks > again for bringing it up, Aaron! I completely agree here that the sustainability of the COOP needs to be ensured. In order to do this, money needs to be always ready for making these things happen. I would also like to say that, in my mind, ideally, the amount taken out should be just enough to acrue the money necessary to expand in the time that it is thought that such an expansion will be necessary. That is to say, tracking the growth of the coop, we should be saving enough money to cover unanticipated maintainence fees, plus, say, if the current numbers show that we will probably need to expand within one year, we should be taking out enough so that we have just that needed money in a year to perform the upgrade, at which point, we do expand, and we can start saving for the next expansion. We should always have enough money to cover unanticipated failures, such as drives and other such things, though, as someone else pointed out, it might be a good idea to have a spare on hand for things that are likely to fail, such as a disk drive or power box or some other thing like that. -- Aaron Hsu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.aaronhsu.com | XMPP/Gtalk: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (703) 597-7656 | "No one could make a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little." - Edmund Burke _______________________________________________ HCoop-Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://hcoop.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hcoop-discuss
