On 2011-05-04 22:41:59 (+0530), Sankar P <sankar.curiosity@gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 4:30 PM, Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer@gmail.com> wrote:
Is there a company/sponsor that if we sent them the money would agree to buy SSDs for the build farm? I can imagine $8000 in SSDs having a major impact on the build farm. And that in turn could draw in even more obs users/contributors.
I am so impressed by this idea that I have a crazy thought.
Can we have a "Buy SSDs for OBS" fundraiser as part of the next openSUSE conference ? I am not sure if it is a common thing to collect money during a technical conference but I have seen such fundraisers work magic for some of the non-profit organizations in my part of the world.
People who attend the conference can donate whatever they can. Assuming an attendance of about 500 people, 10 EUR from each will give a good number. Can we have this as part of the openSUSE conference ?
Sounds like a good idea, indeed. But without a foundation, who would collect the monies ? Where would they be deposited ? Can we even donate money to Attachmate ? Is that even feasible for their accounting, and legal requirements ? I wouldn't be so sure. I mean, it's one of the main reasons for having an openSUSE foundation (at least in terms of short term goals): we cannot give money to Novell (or Attachmate, for that matter) and request that money to be used exclusively to sponsor certain things in openSUSE. At least it wasn't an option with Novell. But hey, if someone wants to "pay me back" on the way more than 1000 EUR I've put on renting opensu.se over the past years... feel free ;D (yeah I know, I'm repeating myself) (Would be better if 4-5 more people would join in on sponsoring that, it's a monthly fee of 100€ and if we can divide that through a larger number of people... you get the point.) cheers -- -o) Pascal Bleser /\\ http://opensuse.org -- we haz green _\_v http://fosdem.org -- we haz conf