Re: Buying hardware with Debian money

2013-12-25 Thread Mason Loring Bliss
On Wed, Dec 25, 2013 at 07:00:10PM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > So, I really saw this purchase as purchasing "Debian infrastructure hosted > at a Developer's rather than in a datacenter". Alright, that's well-reasoned. Something I'd throw in as a possible addition to this would be a formal agre

Re: Buying hardware with Debian money

2013-12-25 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
Hi Mason, Sorry for the delayed answer. On 16/12/13 at 22:33 -0500, Mason Loring Bliss wrote: > On Sun, Oct 20, 2013, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > > I received a few requests for hardware purchases, that I think are worth > > discussing with the project as a whole in order to progress towards havi

Re: Buying hardware with Debian money

2013-12-16 Thread Mason Loring Bliss
On Sun, Oct 20, 2013, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > I received a few requests for hardware purchases, that I think are worth > discussing with the project as a whole in order to progress towards having > clear guidelines for what is acceptable and what isn't in terms of spending > Debian money. > > Pl

Re: Aw: Re: Buying hardware with Debian money

2013-10-21 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] "Steffen Möller" > I find the request C a bit strange or I do not get it right. For > every DD there are machines to log in to for building packages. Right? > Hence, even only with a Raspberry at hand, there are tons of useful bits > to contribute to our distribution and so much every student

Aw: Re: Buying hardware with Debian money

2013-10-21 Thread Steffen Möller
Hello, > On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 11:41 AM, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I received a few requests for hardware purchases, that I think are worth > > discussing with the project as a whole in order to progress towards > > having clear guidelines for what is acceptable and what isn't in te

Re: Buying hardware with Debian money

2013-10-21 Thread Brian Gupta
On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 11:41 AM, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > Hi, > > I received a few requests for hardware purchases, that I think are worth > discussing with the project as a whole in order to progress towards > having clear guidelines for what is acceptable and what isn't in terms > of spending De

Re: Buying hardware with Debian money

2013-10-20 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sun, 2013-10-20 at 09:11 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Lucas Nussbaum writes: > > > C. Laptop for developer (expected cost: 1k-1.5k EUR?) > > = > > I have no particular comment on the merits of this specific request, but > that cost jumped ou

Re: Buying hardware with Debian money

2013-10-20 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 08:48:58PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: > On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 05:41:39PM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > B. Powerful machine for d-i development (expected cost: 1.5k-2k EUR?) > > = > > The estimation is

Re: Buying hardware with Debian money

2013-10-20 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 05:41:39PM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > B. Powerful machine for d-i development (expected cost: 1.5k-2k EUR?) > = The estimation is a bit too large for a decent desktop machine. > > 1. performing more f

Re: Buying hardware with Debian money

2013-10-20 Thread Romain Francoise
Lucas Nussbaum writes: > But I would welcome other ideas of criterias to apply here. I think we should spend donation money only on things that benefit everybody. Sponsoring hardware to help maintain core packages like d-i, glibc, the kernel, etc would be okay. But buying someone a laptop so tha

Re: Buying hardware with Debian money

2013-10-20 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2013-10-20, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > A. Memory expansion cards for m68k buildds (expected cost: 500 EUR) > > B. Powerful machine for d-i development (expected cost: 1.5k-2k EUR?) > > C. Laptop for developer (expected cost: 1k-1.5k EUR?) As such, I think all of it sounds reasonable. Developer t

Re: Buying hardware with Debian money

2013-10-20 Thread Russ Allbery
Lucas Nussbaum writes: > C. Laptop for developer (expected cost: 1k-1.5k EUR?) > = I have no particular comment on the merits of this specific request, but that cost jumped out at me. I don't know if systems are more expensive in Euros, but a

Buying hardware with Debian money

2013-10-20 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
Hi, I received a few requests for hardware purchases, that I think are worth discussing with the project as a whole in order to progress towards having clear guidelines for what is acceptable and what isn't in terms of spending Debian money. Please provide feedback on the proposed decisions -- th