On 2015-10-13 10:17:26 -0700 (-0700), Joshua Harlow wrote: [...] > Interesting, doesn't the foundation have money? I was under the > assumption it does (but I'm not a finance person); seeing that the > membership fee to become a member afaik is not cheap, and there > seems to be quite a-lot of members > (https://www.openstack.org/foundation/companies/) one could > speculate that resources (compute, lab clouds, people to help > manager all of these) shouldn't really be a problem...
Yep, there is some money. I have no idea whether there is surplus sufficient to sustain facilities and staff for a 1k-node service provider with no customer revenue, but I have my doubts. On the other hand it might be easier for data center space, hardware and humans to be donated from 0.1% of 5 different 200k-node service providers since they already have experience doing that at some economy of scale (where the OpenStack Foundation does not). > Anyway, perhaps this is for another conversation... Indeed, and one better had with the OpenStack Foundation Board of Directors rather than the developer community/Infra team. -- Jeremy Stanley __________________________________________________________________________ OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Unsubscribe: openstack-dev-requ...@lists.openstack.org?subject:unsubscribe http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev