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RE: Funding the build farm
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Cook, Malcolm |
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RE: Funding the build farm |
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Wed, 18 Nov 2015 21:26:45 +0000 |
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:address@hidden
> Sent: Wednesday, November 18, 2015 3:21 PM
> To: Cook, Malcolm <address@hidden>
> Cc: Pjotr Prins <address@hidden>; address@hidden
> Subject: Re: Funding the build farm
>
> "Cook, Malcolm" <address@hidden> 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’.
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