OK - good - some numbers - I am not yet ready to make an internal pitch for $$, but hope to be within a month. I have done this for other open source projects before, not quite to this extent, but think I can free up a one-time injection of $omething.... Definitely willing to try.... Film at 11.
> -----Original Message----- > From: Ludovic Courtès [mailto:l...@gnu.org] > Sent: Wednesday, November 18, 2015 3:21 PM > To: Cook, Malcolm <m...@stowers.org> > Cc: Pjotr Prins <pjotr.publi...@thebird.nl>; guix-devel@gnu.org > Subject: Re: Funding the build farm > > "Cook, Malcolm" <m...@stowers.org> skribis: > > > I don't know what kind of $ we're talking about, nor quite how to interpret > all those up and down thumbs at lwn.net, but (once I've finally deployed > guix) > I'll certainly go to bat with my institute to free up some funding. > > Thanks for your support! > > Initially, we’re talking about: > > 1. One big server, along the lines of 8 cores, 32G of RAM, and a fast > 4T drive (around 4–5k€ maybe?). > > 2. Hosting, which needs to be figured out more precisely, but could be > in the 0–2k€ range per year depending on what we choose. > > That’s the back-of-the-envelope calculation. > > What do people think? > > Ludo’.
