Re: [board-discuss] Seeking approval for server procurement

2012-01-12 Thread Olivier Hallot
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 +1 Olivier Em 11-01-2012 09:31, Thorsten Behrens escreveu: > Hi *, > > TDF has received a generous, targetted donation of $3000 to procure > a rack-mountable server, dedicated for dev-related workloads, e.g. > tinderbox builds. One of our sponsoring

Re: [board-discuss] Seeking approval for server procurement

2012-01-11 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Le Wed, 11 Jan 2012 14:30:16 +, Michael Meeks a écrit : > > On Wed, 2012-01-11 at 12:31 +0100, Thorsten Behrens wrote: > > TDF has received a generous, targetted donation of $3000 to procure > > Lovely :-) > > > I hereby request the board to approve the purchase of a suitable > > box

Re: [board-discuss] Seeking approval for server procurement

2012-01-11 Thread Florian Effenberger
+1 Thorsten Behrens wrote on 2012-01-11 12:31: I hereby request the board to approve the purchase of a suitable box, for up to $3000. -- Florian Effenberger Chairman of the Board at The Document Foundation Tel: +49 8341 99660880 | Mobile: +49 151 14424108 Skype: floeff | Twitter/Identi.ca: @f

Re: [board-discuss] Seeking approval for server procurement

2012-01-11 Thread Thorsten Behrens
André Schnabel wrote: > This would mean, that > > 1) TDF gets $3k to by any server that then will be hostet by a sponsor for > free > > 2) TDF gets $3k to by a certain server which is available, and hosted by a > sponsor for free > It's 1) with some suggestions on what would be desirable (fro

Re: [board-discuss] Seeking approval for server procurement

2012-01-11 Thread Michael Meeks
On Wed, 2012-01-11 at 12:31 +0100, Thorsten Behrens wrote: > TDF has received a generous, targetted donation of $3000 to procure Lovely :-) > I hereby request the board to approve the purchase of a suitable > box, for up to $3000. Excellent by me :-) Thanks,

Re: [board-discuss] Seeking approval for server procurement

2012-01-11 Thread Italo Vignoli
On 1/11/12 12:31 PM, Thorsten Behrens wrote: > TDF has received a generous, targetted donation of $3000 to procure > a rack-mountable server, dedicated for dev-related workloads, e.g. > tinderbox builds. One of our sponsoring companies is offering > for-free hosting, such that this is a one-off sp

Re: [board-discuss] Seeking approval for server procurement

2012-01-11 Thread Andre Schnabel
Hi Thorsten, * I'm not voting, but want to get this right ... Original-Nachricht > Von: Thorsten Behrens > An: board-discuss@documentfoundation.org > > TDF has received a generous, targetted donation of $3000 to procure > a rack-mountable server, dedicated for dev-related work

Re: [board-discuss] Seeking approval for server procurement

2012-01-11 Thread Thorsten Behrens
Tom Davies wrote: > So i am not really clear why it's even up for discussion or voting > Because you can't just donate $xy to TDF, and ask us to buy, say, a nuclear warhead on ebay - without the board explicitely approving the purchase. HTH, -- Thorsten -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to b

Re: [board-discuss] Seeking approval for server procurement

2012-01-11 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) +1 Ok, i am not a voting member but the options here seem to be 1.  accept the donation and get an asset that might be useful (probably will be enormously useful) 2.  hand back the dosh So i am not really clear why it's even up for discussion or voting on but i guess it's good policy jic