A donation to a chapter within one jurisdiction is not something that is easily moved to another chapter in another jurisdiction.
In this specific case there were a need for a solution and, well, little response from other. One admin from the nowp community managed to get a deal both on a server and hosting and got it up and running. Sometimes it is simply more efficient to get a working solution, then to wait for something to happen. John Daniel Kinzler wrote: > I would prefer to pool our efforts and resources into making the existing > toolserver more useful and more powerful. But then, as a toolserver admin an > employee of WMDE, I'm biased :) > > Anyway, the most efficient and, at least for us, easiest way to contribute > would > be a donation to wmde appropriated to be spent on the toolserver project. In > the > past there has been some confusion about how to best do this, we are working > on > sorting this out now. If anyone is interested in donating money or hardware or > some other assets, please contact me. > > If you feel like setting up your own, we are happy to cooperate. But be warned > that it not only takes money, but it also takes a lot of time and effort to > manage something like this (thanks river!). > > -- daniel > > Lars Aronsson schrieb: >> Earlier this spring, there was some talk, perhaps within the newly >> founded Wikimedia Norway chapter, to set up a common server in >> Norway for analysing database dumps and running bot scripts, i.e. >> a toolserver with everything except the database replication. >> >> Did this happen? Are there a bunch of such servers around the >> world today? Is there a list of such servers? Should we >> encourage people to do this, or should we try to concentrate work >> (and pool resources) to the (real / German) toolserver? >> >> Concentrating to fewer servers has the advantage that people can >> get a single account there, and join each project that is already >> there. Distributing over multiple, independent servers has the >> advantage of offloading the central server. It might also seem >> like an attractive project for a new Wikimedia chapter, since a >> server of their own looks like an achievement in itself. But it >> is also a waste of resources to maintain separate servers, if >> these resources could instead be pooled. >> >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Toolserver-l mailing list > Toolserver-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/toolserver-l > _______________________________________________ Toolserver-l mailing list Toolserver-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/toolserver-l
