[volunteers] The 2230 formerly (and presently) known as brie

[Edward Cherlin]

On Dec 17, 2007 5:08 PM, Paul Reiber <reiber at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Dec 17, 2007 4:31 PM, Edward Cherlin <echerlin at gmail.com> wrote:
> > [...]
> > So here is me asking, could you get us some more servers?
>
> All -
> I've been asked (yay!) if we couldn't get some more computers to do
> projects with.

You're welcome. Er, thank you. Er, hooray!

> I have a number of companies that are interested in being hardware
> sponsors. Specifics
> of the agreements on the table from these various sponsors vary; for
> the most part,
> SVLUG's obligations to these sponsors would only be recognition as a
> sponsor on our
> website and thank-you-level mention at various SVLUG events...
> although in a few cases,
> the details are a little different.  For the most part, educationally
> and interestingly different.

Where can we have a look? We'll want a list of what is on offer for
those who just want to play with them, and perhaps a separate list of
offers with conditions for those who want to discuss policy. On an
entirely separate thread.

> My questions for you regarding this direction:
>
> - other than "we've never needed to do that before", do you see any
> compelling reasons
> why SVLUG _shouldn't_ do this?

Nothing leaps to mind.

> - what, if any, prerequisites do you see as being appropriate for an
> SVLUG hardware sponsor?
> Conversely, would anything disqualify a potential hardware sponsor
> just on the face of things?

I'll wait until I see

> - A number of vendors have "toaster" type solutions - for example,
> Untangle.  Is anyone willing
> to play the "end user" role, and use some of these pre-configured
> solutions as part of what
> we're about/doing?

I and Clement, certainly.

> - what would you do with an extra server or two, if YOU had them to play with?

The first thing *I* would do is set up places where all the idi^H^H^H
members with completely different ideas of how to set up a server
could each have their own sandbox. Then we could replicate what works,
or rather, what we can agree works. That means if you want your
solution accepted, you have to play nice with the others.

> Best regards,
> -pbr
>



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