Hi Benny,
I'm actually located in Germany. It would be good to chat with
you. Perhaps we can talk sometime next week or the week after
Thanksgiving and discuss plans for next year. Lars Vogdt is a
member of the heroes team and he is a good point of contact for
anything you would want to send to the heroes team.
We tend to have some difficulty on accepting cash for the
project, so sending money isn't really feasible. What we can do is
find the cards we need through a website and they perhaps you
would just order for delivery in Germany. That would be the best.
The address would be
Douglas DeMaio
C/O SUSE
Maxfeld Str. 5
Nuremberg, Germany
90409
Lars, could you find a link for the cards that we need and send it to Benny?
v/r
Doug
Sure! I could ship the cards wherever you'd like, but it might make more sense for me to just send you the cash. That way you can get the exact thing you're looking for and get it shipped where you need it shipped.
I'd love to chat about something creative for our support next year. Are you based in the states, in Germany, or somewhere else entirely? I'd love to chat when we can both be most comfortable. :)
Side note: I got a rejection from the heroes@ mailing list, probably due to me not being on it. Would you like me to add myself? Or is there another good way to handle that?
Thanks!
On Nov 15, 2017, at 6:32 AM, ddemaio <ddemaio@suse.de> wrote:
Hi Benny,
Thank you for the info. I will need to chat with our Heroes team to see what location the cards are needed. Would it be possible to ship them to Germany? I assume that's where they will need to go, but I will need to see. AS for the something next year, I believe the list below is still current.
The best people to determine what's needed is the heroes@opensue.org. I can come work with you on any publicity surrounding donations to the project.
v/r
Doug
On 2017-11-13 23:00, benny Vasquez wrote:
Hey Doug!
I'm so sorry for my delay here! You feel off my radar.
I'd like to pick up those 10G Network cards for you this year, since
it's quick and easy. What's the best way to get money to you, so you
can pick up the cards?
Also, I'd like to chat with someone about offering a bit more support
for next year, and potentially some publicity and/or co-marketing
opportunities around that. Who's the best person for that?
Thanks!
benny Vasquez
@cPanelDev <https://twitter.com/cpaneldev>
Manager of Community Engagement
On Sep 7, 2017, at 8:36 AM, benny Vasquez <jennifer.vasquez@cpanel.net> wrote:
Thank you so much Doug!
We're finalizing the planning of our conference right now, so all of our focus is there. We'll circle back to this around the beginning of October.
Talk soon!
benny Vasquez
@cPanelDev <https://twitter.com/cpaneldev>
Manager of Community Engagement
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On Sep 7, 2017, at 7:50 AM, ddemaio <ddemaio@suse.de <mailto:ddemaio@suse.de>> wrote:
Hi Benny,
Sorry it has taken so long to get back with you. Our Heroes team who manage the project's infrastructure discussed your offer for supporting the project and came up with the following list of items that we could find useful:
Regarding OBS sponsoring, we are more or less always looking for:
* "local" storage (FC would be nice to fit into our current SAN) to
store the build results or caches (ATM we are urgently looking for a
replacement of a 5 year old SAS disk array with 32TB capacity).
The cost for such an array are starting at 35k EUR.
* more build workers (especially ARM or ppcle architectures or x86
workers with a huge (>=1Tb) amount of RAM. Starting at 2-10k EUR.
* backend machines (for running schedulers, etc.) with special HW setup.
Around 15k EUR.
* 2-Port 10Gb network cards for some virtualization machines. Starting
at 250 EUR.
* Mirror servers around the world, that have ~20TB capacity and can be
pushed via rsync (additional ssh access might be good for initial
setup and debugging)
I have cced Lars Vogdt and the Heroes team. Please let us know if you have any questions.
v/r
Doug
On 03/07/2017 03:32 PM, benny Vasquez wrote:
Hi Doug! Please do ask Max to send along the details on how we could help.
benny Vasquez
@cPanelDev <https://twitter.com/cpaneldev>
Community Manager
benny@cpanel.net <mailto:benny@cpanel.net>
Meet me at WHD.Global Booth G19
March 27th - 29th
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On Mar 7, 2017, at 4:30 AM, ddemaio <ddemaio@suse.de <mailto:ddemaio@suse.de>> wrote:
Hi Benny,
Thank you for the email. Max is part of our infra team and has identified a possible need with our rsync.opensuse.org <http://rsync.opensuse.org/> infra. We would be grateful for cpanel's support. He could email you the details of how you could help.
v/r
Doug
On 03/06/2017 11:51 PM, benny Vasquez wrote:
Hey Andrew!
I wanted to check in with y'all and see how things are going! Have you found where we might best be able to help yet?
Thanks so much!
benny Vasquez
@cPanelDev <https://twitter.com/cpaneldev>
Community Manager
benny@cpanel.net <mailto:benny@cpanel.net>
Meet me at WHD.Global Booth G19
March 27th - 29th
go.cpanel.net/cPanelWHD2017 <http://go.cpanel.net/cPanelWHD2017>
On Dec 6, 2016, at 2:25 PM, benny Vasquez <jennifer.vasquez@cpanel.net <mailto:jennifer.vasquez@cpanel.net>> wrote:
Hi Andrew (and everyone else)!
It's so great to hear from you, and thank you so much for reaching out. We are honestly interested in helping get you the things that you need that you just can't get for yourself. Funding is definitely an option, as is hardware. We're open to helping in whatever way we can, short of hiring people or time-space manipulation. :D We are mostly interested in things that directly support Open Build Service. Here are examples of ways we've supported other projects:
* Project funding
* Equipment loans
* Logo redesign
* Foundation contributions
* Bandwidth + hardware for mirroring
What works best for you all?
Talk soon!
-- benny
On Dec 1, 2016, at 8:48 AM, Andrew Wafaa <awafaa@opensuse.org <mailto:awafaa@opensuse.org>> wrote:benny Vasquez
Hi Kenneth and Benny,
On behalf of the openSUSE Board and the openSUSE Community, I would
like to extend our heartfelt thanks for your kind offer of assistance
to the openSUSE Project!
If possible could you clarify how you would like to assist the
openSUSE Project, are you looking at ways of funding financially or
ways to contribute hardware or services? The openSUSE Board would like
to ensure that cPanel's contribution benefit both openSUSE and cPanel
as best as possible and that we as a community rightfully recognise
our sponsors.
From an infrastructure perspective, there are various ways to assist,
whether it's by providing a mirror service, hosted resources or by
funding hardware for in-house use. openSUSE has an annual conference
(normally in Europe) where sponsorship is always welcome, and in
addition we also have smaller events in Asia as well as participating
in events like SCALE and LFNW in the US where funding assistance is
also welcome. Another possibility is to sponsor a specific sprint on
technology that benefits both entities.
If you could assist us with better understanding where and how you
would like to sponsor that would help us in gratefully accepting your
offer.
Kind regards,
Andrew Wafaa
On behalf of the openSUSE Board
@cpaneldev <https://twitter.com/cpaneldev>
Community Manager
benny@cpanel.net <mailto:benny@cpanel.net>