[Strategic] Let's go - 2010 hardware funding

[Kate Chapman]

Richard,

With the situation as it is I totally agree that just updating the
donation button is necessary.

If the SWG decides to approach other funding mechanism it is true that
this is likely to take months.

-Kate

On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 10:18 AM, Richard Weait <richard at weait.com> 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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