[Strategic] Let's go - 2010 hardware funding

[Chris Fleming]

I would tend to agree with Richard, we should use the existing donation 
mechanism to address the short term needs.

Hopefully in the future we will be able to identify other sources of 
funding so that we can ensure that from a hardware perspective the right 
resources are well ahead of when they are required.

Cheers
Chris



On 15/06/10 15:18, Richard Weait wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 9:41 AM, Kate Chapman<kate at maploser.com>  wrote:
>    
>> Grant,
>>
>> Though that is the easiest route to go what about trying some sort of
>> grant application?  (I realize this is more work than updating the
>> donate page)
>>      
> Depending on how that idea progresses perhaps aim for grants for some
> portion of 2011 or 2012?
>
>    
>> What timeframe do you need funding to begin the upgrades?
>>      
> The high priority requirements are for July.
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Servers/Upgrades#Required_.2F_Donations_Sought
>
> I see that you are on the road, Kate ;-) so you might have missed this.
>
> While not necessarily related OSM DB was down for several hours today
> due to disk trouble.  On smaug the /data raid array is being / has
> been rebuilt.  /data is at ~90% capacity and additional drives for
> /data are on that list.
>
> If Strategic Working Group is not ready to move on these high-priority
> requirements, some have been listed since March, then SWG needs to
> step out of the way of the current OSM fundraising mechanism.
>
> There is nothing wrong with taking a longer view and aiming for
> "bigger" goals but so far we've done almost nothing.  We mustn't
> expect the planet to wait for us.  Time for the SWG to declare that
> we'll be forming in July, planning in Q3-Q4 2010, and becoming
> effective in Q3 2011.
>
> Let's get out of the way.  We harm OSM by making it wait on us.
>
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