RE: Funding the build farm

["Cook, Malcolm" <MEC@stowers.org>]

Hi,

I don't know what kind of $ we're talking about, nor quite how to interpret all those up and down thumbs at lwn.net, but (once I've finally deployed guix) I'll certainly go to bat with my institute to free up some funding. 

Back to Pjotr's Q: How much would it cost to get some decent hardware for the substitute server?

~Malcolm

> -----Original Message-----
 > From: guix-devel-bounces+mec=stowers.org@gnu.org [mailto:guix-devel-
 > bounces+mec=stowers.org@gnu.org] On Behalf Of Ludovic Courtès
 > Sent: Wednesday, November 18, 2015 12:30 PM
 > To: Pjotr Prins <pjotr.public12@thebird.nl>
 > Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
 > Subject: Funding the build farm
 > 
 > Pjotr Prins <pjotr.public12@thebird.nl> skribis:
 > 
 > > How much would it cost to get some decent hardware for the substitute
 > > server? Maybe we can do a dedicated round of funding on this list and
 > > go round with a cap at FOSDEM? I am happy to put in $100 if it solves
 > > the issue. Is there no one here who can provide a decent server?
 > 
 > I know this is ridiculous, but we need a way to collect money.  The FSF
 > is overworked so the Free Software Fund¹ still isn’t set up for us, and
 > I’m even concerned about its viability at this point.
 > 
 > So, what can we do?  We could go to another fiscal sponsor for free
 > software projects in the US, either Conservancy or SPI, Inc., but they
 > may redirect us to the FSF because we’re GNU.
 > 
 > We could look for something similar in Europe but I don’t know of any.
 > 
 > Or we could just create a bank account (I want to avoid PayPal) and
 > possibly a non-profit and do it ourselves.  But this has drawbacks, see
 > <https://lwn.net/Articles/548558/> for instance.
 > 
 > Concrete suggestions are very much welcome!
 > 
 > Then we’ll need to figure out hosting, but I’m a little less concerned.
 > 
 > Ludo’.
 > 
 > ¹ https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2015-10/msg00172.html