On Thu, Sep 7, 2017 at 7:32 AM, William L. Thomson Jr. <wlt...@o-sinc.com> wrote: > On Thu, 7 Sep 2017 10:26:10 -0400 > "William L. Thomson Jr." <wlt...@o-sinc.com> wrote: > >> On Thu, 7 Sep 2017 18:03:21 +0800 (HKT) >> Brendan Horan <bren...@horan.hk> wrote: >> >> > Just an update for everyone : >> > R0b0t1, has the Power 6+ >> > Johnson, has the Sparc T5120 >> > >> > Still working out shipping/logistics >> >> If someone has access to say a company UPS or FedEx account. They may >> have discounted rates based on volume. Maybe something to consider or >> look into. Also may help with customs to ship to a work/business >> address and/or coming from one business to another vs individuals. >> > > Another thought.... > > Why not have Gentoo Foundation cover shipping costs?
Can't speak for the Trustees, but the process for this is at: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Foundation:Funding_Request (I wouldn't overthink it - just spell out what you want/need. I bet you could make it shorter than some of the emails in this thread.) In general I would just comment that if anything we get too few requests for spending money and not too many. I don't think the Foundation would be able to just go buying PCs for every dev on request, but for one-offs like these they might chip in. One thing that should be considered in these sorts of requests is who owns the hardware and where it will be kept and what kind of access other devs on the relevant teams would have. I think there ought to be a difference between how we treat hardware that is owned by the Foundation and always available to devs, vs something that somebody intends to use for Gentoo work right now, but where ownership resides with the individual and there is no obligation to give the hardware to somebody else if they stop contributing. To the extent that the costs are more nominal the Foundation should probably exercise more leeway. That's all just my opinion though. If you want the Trustees to consider it then just fill out the "form" and post it in a bug assigned to them using the Foundation "product" in bugzilla. It never hurts to ask... -- Rich
