On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 9:13 PM, Curtis Olson <curtol...@gmail.com> wrote: > Gary and Stuart, > We could certainly explore the donation route. I'm doing a little bit of > research to try to determine what the realistic costs would be to setup a > dedicated server to run a multiplayer system. That will give us a better > idea what we need to shoot for.
Not sure why suddenly everybody wants to pay for things :) As far as MP is concerned we seem to be having enough volunteers to keep the system running. With 02 finally gone, MP will even work properly for a change (I have suggested multiple times to rename or discontinue it because it was causing more harm than it was useful). I am not aware of any other problems or mp server admins saying they can't keep things running due to missing funding. (It is funny how most servers are in Europe, though.) Side note: Sabin has been waiting for an official mpserver.flightgear.org address since may for the FREE mp server he started in Kansas. Which, being in the USA, could have taken much of the stress from Pigeon's 02. Unfortunately even though we had some discussion and even Curt offered to make the necessary DNS changes, nothing happened. Can we please finally assign a DNS to his FREE server? With 02 gone, and plenty of USA folks set up for using it, I (yet again) suggest to make the new server take over 02. Current MP servers only need one thing: bandwidth. It is widely known that our MP protocol is horribly inefficient with bandwidth usage. I would definitely try to fix that before asking for donations for better servers. That said, you can basically pick the cheapest virtual server that has good network speed and unlimited bandwidth. (By the way, Stefan, I would never use an evil bandwidth-throttling-type unlimited service, let alone recommend one!) Appropriate VPS servers can be had for as low as $20 per month. So much about MP. FGCom needs even less resources, the main problem there was missing installation instructions but thanks to Thomas and Willie that is sorted out. That leaves things like main site, wiki, mapserver, terrasync. Money could also be used for other things such as costs related to conferences. I am not against setting up donation collecting infrastructure for those but not built into FG (or even its installer - although I don't particularly care for windows users LOL). -- Csaba/Jester ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Beautiful is writing same markup. Internet Explorer 9 supports standards for HTML5, CSS3, SVG 1.1, ECMAScript5, and DOM L2 & L3. Spend less time writing and rewriting code and more time creating great experiences on the web. Be a part of the beta today. http://p.sf.net/sfu/beautyoftheweb _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
