Re: [board-discuss] Seeking approval for server procurement

2012-01-12 Thread Olivier Hallot
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 +1 Olivier Em 11-01-2012 09:31, Thorsten Behrens escreveu: Hi *, TDF has received a generous, targetted donation of $3000 to procure a rack-mountable server, dedicated for dev-related workloads, e.g. tinderbox builds. One of our sponsoring

[board-discuss] Seeking approval for server procurement

2012-01-11 Thread Thorsten Behrens
Hi *, TDF has received a generous, targetted donation of $3000 to procure a rack-mountable server, dedicated for dev-related workloads, e.g. tinderbox builds. One of our sponsoring companies is offering for-free hosting, such that this is a one-off spending. I hereby request the board to approve

Re: [board-discuss] Seeking approval for server procurement

2012-01-11 Thread Tom Davies
it leads to further unexpected expenses or other problems (which seems very unlikely). Regards from Tom :) --- On Wed, 11/1/12, Thorsten Behrens t...@documentfoundation.org wrote: From: Thorsten Behrens t...@documentfoundation.org Subject: [board-discuss] Seeking approval for server

Re: [board-discuss] Seeking approval for server procurement

2012-01-11 Thread Thorsten Behrens
Tom Davies wrote: So i am not really clear why it's even up for discussion or voting Because you can't just donate $xy to TDF, and ask us to buy, say, a nuclear warhead on ebay - without the board explicitely approving the purchase. HTH, -- Thorsten -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to

Re: [board-discuss] Seeking approval for server procurement

2012-01-11 Thread Andre Schnabel
Hi Thorsten, * I'm not voting, but want to get this right ... Original-Nachricht Von: Thorsten Behrens t...@documentfoundation.org An: board-discuss@documentfoundation.org TDF has received a generous, targetted donation of $3000 to procure a rack-mountable server,

Re: [board-discuss] Seeking approval for server procurement

2012-01-11 Thread Michael Meeks
On Wed, 2012-01-11 at 12:31 +0100, Thorsten Behrens wrote: TDF has received a generous, targetted donation of $3000 to procure Lovely :-) I hereby request the board to approve the purchase of a suitable box, for up to $3000. Excellent by me :-) Thanks,

Re: [board-discuss] Seeking approval for server procurement

2012-01-11 Thread Thorsten Behrens
André Schnabel wrote: This would mean, that 1) TDF gets $3k to by any server that then will be hostet by a sponsor for free 2) TDF gets $3k to by a certain server which is available, and hosted by a sponsor for free It's 1) with some suggestions on what would be desirable (from both

Re: [board-discuss] Seeking approval for server procurement

2012-01-11 Thread Florian Effenberger
+1 Thorsten Behrens wrote on 2012-01-11 12:31: I hereby request the board to approve the purchase of a suitable box, for up to $3000. -- Florian Effenberger flo...@documentfoundation.org Chairman of the Board at The Document Foundation Tel: +49 8341 99660880 | Mobile: +49 151 14424108 Skype:

Re: [board-discuss] Seeking approval for server procurement

2012-01-11 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Le Wed, 11 Jan 2012 14:30:16 +, Michael Meeks michael.me...@suse.com a écrit : On Wed, 2012-01-11 at 12:31 +0100, Thorsten Behrens wrote: TDF has received a generous, targetted donation of $3000 to procure Lovely :-) I hereby request the board to approve the purchase of a