On Tue, 30 Dec 2003, Nadav Har'El wrote: > On Tue, Dec 30, 2003, Omer Zak wrote about "Re: Posting the Ligad/HP situation on > Linux-IL": > > My suggestion: > > Unlike the situation a year ago, now we have a non-profit (Hamakor), which > > can issue receipts. > > > > If the non-profit is now approved for income tax deductions, then it may > > be a good idea to ask the non-profit to run a small fund raising drive, > > looking for, say, 9 donors (I am the 10th) for the money to buy the hard > > disks. > > I also seem to remember paying membership dues to Hamakor, and many other > people did the same. Paying for such disks (how much can it cost - 500 > shekels? 1000?) is as good a cause as any, if used wisely (not for a mirror > of a distribution that has 2 users in Israel!).
Unfortunately, I'm not familiar with the price of an Ultra-Wide SCSI 4*70 GB sets of RAID disks. I know it can cost somewhat more than 500 shekels because it's high-end equipment. I can assure you, the space is used as wisely as we can. Check: http://mirror.hamakor.org.il/ for the list of mirrors, and if you don't like something - just let us know, and we can discuss it here. > In fact it's exactly the > kind of thing that I expect to be done with the money I paid. How much money > is involved here? I assume it's not $20,000, like wikipedia asked for :) > No, thanks God. It's much less than that. But Hamakor still has a lot of operational cost, and they'd rather ask for people to sponsor the hard-disks, than extract it out of their budget. > P.S. There's a completely new server in hamakor.org.il. How come the two > of them together still don't have enough space? Is the available space > used wisely? > First of all there are many people who are admins of iglu.org.il and not of hamakor.org.il (like me). They would rather have enough space there so they can more easily manage it and allocate it for their needs. Secondly, there is also the space needed for Zope, PostNuke or whatever, this need is not very space-hungry, but our other partitions are also getting more and more full as time goes by. Finally, we are waiting for the new disks in order to upgrade to a new distribution. (because it would be easier than to upgrade and then replace disks). Regards, Shlomi Fish > -- > Nadav Har'El | Tuesday, Dec 30 2003, 5 Tevet 5764 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] |----------------------------------------- > Phone: +972-53-790466, ICQ 13349191 |Ihave a watch cat! If someone breaks in, > http://nadav.harel.org.il |she'll watch. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://t2.technion.ac.il/~shlomif/ Writing a BitKeeper replacement is probably easier at this point than getting its license changed. Matt Mackall on OFTC.net #offtopic.
