> El 20/12/2013, a las 18:08, Theo de Raadt <dera...@cvs.openbsd.org> escribió: > > I am resending this request for funding our electricity bills because > it is not yet resolved. > > We really need even more funding beyond that, because otherwise all of > this is simply unsustainable. This request is the smallest we can > make. > > ------- > > Hi everyone. > > The OpenBSD project uses a lot of electricity for running the > development and build machines. A number of logistical reasons > prevents us from moving the machines to another location which might > offer space/power for free, so let's not allow the conversation to go > that way. > > We are looking for a Canadian company who will take on our electrical > expenses -- on their books, rather than on our books. We would be > happiest to find someone who will do this on an annual recurring > basis. > > That way the various OpenBSD efforts can be supported, yet written off > as an off-site operations cost by such a company. If we reduce this > cost, it will leave more money for other parts of the project. > > We think that a Canadian company is the best choice for accounting > reasons. If a company in some other jurisdiction feels they can also > do this successfully, we'd be very happy to hear from them as well. > > I am not going to disclose the actual numbers here. Please contact me > for details if serious. > > Thanks.
Well, we know that energy prices will continue to increase, not decrease, so this will be harder in the future. Whit this in mind, why not look for a strategy to save up on energy costs. Something like this: Through the history of openbsd there have been architectures in which more bugs have been found and some in which fewer bugs have appeared. Then maybe the number of bugs for an architecture can be matched to the power-on-time for the machines for that architecture. For example, if 1% of the total number of bugs in the history of openbsd have appeared on architecture x, then it's likely that it will continue to be so, then all the machines for that architecture should be powered on just 1% of the time. Then perform that analysis on all architectures to make a more better use of energy. And that's it.
