I have a suggestion for every one of us that has mailed in an idea in
response to a solicitaion for money...
Send money.
Just do it right now, write a cheque. Send it, send it now.
Do that a couple of times a year.
Buy a cd twice a year, get at least one t-shirt with each order.
Were we told how much the monthly electron bill is?
I can step up my contribution a bit.
Could we save money by converting to steam, maybe we could remove
support for coff binary's cause they are , you know, bad or old or
something. Or perhaps running the build farm on raspberry pi's. I
understand Linux has a cross compiler and that way .... we could all
just shut up and chip in some dough.....
Steven Chamberlain wrote:
I've set up a small recurring donation for now.
I'd like to throw out some ideas and questions if I may:
* Anyone selling an OpenBSD-based solution to business customers might
want to imagine the OS has some sort of 'license fee', increase the
quote for their work accordingly, and pass along the sum in donations.
* Please could we get a newer picture than rack2009.jpg? I assume much
has already changed; I don't see a loongson build machine for example.
Would the picture be anywhere near representative of where the CAN$20k
electricity costs arise?
* Is there any easy means on-hand to measure power consumption, maybe
reading stats from the UPSes, or using plug-in meters such as those made
by CurrentCost; would anything like that be worth putting on the
hardware wishlist?
* Could potential energy savings be roughly worked out, and maybe
mentioned in the hardware wishlist somehow? Would a Sun Fire T1000 be
able to replace some number of older sparc boxes for example? And as
SSDs become larger, would a pair of them be able to replace some number
of power-hungry 10k RPM disks? Such things are all the more valuable as
donations if they have a lower operating cost than what they replaced.
Regards,
