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

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 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 suitable > > box

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 Chairman of the Board at The Document Foundation Tel: +49 8341 99660880 | Mobile: +49 151 14424108 Skype: floeff | Twitter/Identi.ca: @f

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 (fro

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 Italo Vignoli
On 1/11/12 12:31 PM, Thorsten Behrens wrote: > 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 sp

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 > An: board-discuss@documentfoundation.org > > TDF has received a generous, targetted donation of $3000 to procure > a rack-mountable server, dedicated for dev-related work

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 b

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

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

[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