On Thu, Jul 08, 2010 at 10:52:07PM -0400, Richard Darst wrote: > On Thu, Jul 08, 2010 at 04:19:31PM -0400, Jimmy Kaplowitz wrote: > > The $500 is more appropriately not included in the cost evaluation; > > it's a one time fee that SPI would be paying from general funds (NOT > > Debian and also NOT DebConf10), and it will enable SPI to offer this > > kind of debit card service to any SPI associated project that needs > > it in the future, whether DebConf or a mini-DebConf or some > > PostgreSQL or Madwifi/OpenWrt conference, etc. The $500 would not > > need to be repeated for future orders. > > I'm sure that SPI would pick this up, since you and Michael are > heavily involved in SPI. > > However, I am not sure that we should ask SPI to pick this up. It > sounds more like it's mostly our idea which we are claiming they can > use, without a visible need beforehand. I've found that getting stuff > without a need seen often leads to unused stuff... and I'm worried > that once you and Michael become less active, this could be forgotten.
Just because it came from a need for DebConf doesn't mean that it won't be useful for other projects. I think this sort of thing fits in pretty well with the sort of services SPI can and should offer to associated projects, so I don't think you need to worry about asking SPI to cover the setup fee. J. (Another SPI Board member) -- Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so. _______________________________________________ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
