On Wed, Sep 2, 2020 at 1:22 PM Mark Pearson wrote: > Following on from DebConf 2020 (which I thoroughly enjoyed - thank you!) > the Lenovo portal that was announced is now available:
Thanks for your generosity here! This announcement seems suitable for inclusion on these wiki pages. You will need to register an account in order to edit them, if you don't have one already. Inclusion on the latter means the announcement will eventually go out to the debian-devel-announce mailing list. https://wiki.debian.org/MemberBenefits https://wiki.debian.org/DeveloperNews > You should just be able to register with your debian.org email address > to get the discount on any Lenovo equipment. Do let me know if any > problems. I note that some debian.org email addresses are guest accounts for contributors who are not Debian members (although we do ask that they don't use these addresses) and some are role addresses (for example d...@debian.org corresponds to the Debian sysadmin team (DSA)) and some of those teams may have recipients who are not yet Debian members. Does the acceptance of role addresses mean for example that DSA could buy discounted servers from Lenovo? We have received very favourable quotes for servers from the local Austrian and Greek Lenovo offices and turning that into a standard discount that does not require country-by-country conversations with the local Lenovo offices would be very helpful. Many of the Debian membership benefits (link above) also apply to Debian Maintainers (folks who are not members but can do unsupervised uploads of particular packages) and Debian contributors in general, has Lenovo considered including one or both of these groups in the discount program? -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
