Pascal and others, On 20/05/11 06:50, Pascal Bleser wrote:
[...] Hence in terms of sponsoring, for Packman, we would be primarily interested in monetary donations in order to rent a hosted server, including bandwidth.
That's good to know but (at least speaking for our company) probably somewhat more difficult to get approved. However, in our line of business (geoscience services, oil & gas) there are usually lots of compute resources available and approaching such companies might be an idea if you need some hardware. You will never get access to the data centres because of security reasons but you might be able to get some (used) hardware.
[...] Okay, sorry again, but good for the other project then :)
Yes, indeed ;) Anyway, in order to avoid similar situations in the future, I suggest you (or representatives of openSUSE projects looking for some hardware or other tools that could be sponsored) send an email to this very mailing list (and perhaps plant an article in some other prominent places like the newsletter/blog) to make everybody aware of the wish list or the need for additional hardware or infrastructure. Companies will only be able to help if you either approach them directly, or somebody working for a company is able to see your request somewhere. Replies to your request won't be guaranteed but I think that's okay when we consider it will only take you 5min to draft such a small email/article. It's very rare that a company approaches a project directly to inquire how the company could help, it's more likely that a company responds should there be a request for help. Kind Regards, Thomas -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org