Thanks again, Paul. Great stuff. I'll have a good read. :-) On 1 October 2017 at 15:42, Paul Wise <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sun, 2017-10-01 at 15:14 +0200, Greg Harvey wrote: > > > I'm still left wondering about a few practical things though - for > > example, how is hosting things like the VCS, the mirrors, etc. > > organised and paid for (or maybe it isn't paid for, hence the > > partners?) > > Each service has an admin team and the Debian sysadmin team run the > systems that the services run on using hosting provided gratis by our > hosting partners and hardware either provided gratis by our hardware > partners or purchased through general Debian funding. > > The mirrors are hosted and run by organisations around the world who > want to have faster access to the Debian archive, or want their > customers or users to use less external bandwidth. > > https://www.debian.org/mirror/sponsors > > > Who organises official events and how are they organised? > > The annual Debian conference is organised in a different location each > year by a new local team, who are advised by the global team. > > https://wiki.debconf.org/ > > Other events are organised by local groups and Debian contributors. > > > Who funds events, if anyone? > > Events are funded through Debian's general funding, which comes from > donations and sponsorship of the annual Debian conference. > > > This sort of stuff... maybe it's all outsourced to SPI? > > SPI is one of our "Trusted Organisations", each of which holds assets > on our behalf and enters into agreements where we need a legal entity. > Some of these have paid staff members and others are volunteer based. > > https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Treasurer/Organizations > > > Wondering how Debian avoid this, or how they manage it, if it's > > simply unavoidable for a large FOSS project? > > Most of the TOs take a percentage of donations to their member projects > in order to cover their costs. > > -- > bye, > pabs > > https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise >
