Hi all, Speaking strictly for me here:
My margins are not razor sharp, they are negative. That is to say, my consulting activity is a way for me to finance my guix and Plan 9 related activities. I don't make any money out of guix-hosting.com, the fees cover the costs of the servers + a small margin, and I spend more time on it than the margin is worth, when compared to my mean daily fee for consulting. So giving away money from the sales would make no sense for me, if money was of the essence, everybody would be better off if I took one more consulting client and gave money out of that. But I'm trying to give back in other ways: my contribution to the the recent vfs-mapping and shared-cache services are an example of something that happened thanks to my commercial guix activity, and once I get the physical server running, I intend to make some of that infrastructure public. I will see what my fiscal position is at the end of the next fiscal year (which for me runs from sept. to august) and I'll certainly consider participating to the common fund if I'm in a position to do so then. Also I need to get out of the house more and participate to the IRL events in Paris that Tanguy is hosting. So the idea is nice, and I appreciate the sentiment, but I don't think I can afford it exactly that way right now. Cheers, Edouard. [email protected] writes: > Hey Guix team! > > It's awesome that you all launch fundraising campaigns! > > Here's this for an idea, how about we partner with say guix-hosting.com, > https://www.thinkpenguin.com/, purism, olimex (1), MNT reform, raptor > computing, > and other companies offering services/selling hardware? We could ask that > those > companies give a a discount to customers using the discount code "guix", and > they will donate a portion of their sales to guix. > > I myself have access to desktop Intel Optiplex 7010 machines with a 2 TB hard > drive (or SSDs), and 8 - 32 GB of ram. I'm happy to sell many of those > machines > running guix system for $400 and donate $50 of the sale to guix for as long as > guix has the fundraiser. > > I also have a Talos II motherboard with used power9 cpus that I will be > assembling soon. I'm happy to sell that for about $6,000 and donate $200 to > guix. I could sell maybe 10 Talos IIs. Or I could sell some assembled > blackbirds > for $3,000 and donate $100 to guix. I could sell perhaps 10 of those machines > as > well (2). > > > 1) https://www.olimex.com/Products/DIY-Laptop/ > > 2) https://video.hardlimit.com/w/qYa49Z84LTFf7euRRXeoAU
