Re: Fedora as an crowd founded project an additional funding source to our sponsor

2013-07-26 Thread Michael Scherer
Le mercredi 24 juillet 2013 à 15:11 -0700, Adam Williamson a écrit : On Wed, 2013-07-24 at 16:50 +, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: On 07/24/2013 04:40 PM, inode0 wrote: On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 11:07 AM, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson johan...@gmail.com wrote: The entire budget is not public

Re: Fedora as an crowd founded project an additional funding source to our sponsor

2013-07-26 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 07/26/2013 01:07 PM, Michael Scherer wrote: Working in IT @Red Hat, I concur, and I am pretty sure that no one has all the information to make that estimation. Network, hosting and storage are all under different budgets for different team, and all aggregated ( cause the DC where RH host

Re: Fedora as an crowd founded project an additional funding source to our sponsor

2013-07-26 Thread Michael Scherer
Le vendredi 26 juillet 2013 à 13:32 +, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson a écrit : On 07/26/2013 01:07 PM, Michael Scherer wrote: Working in IT @Red Hat, I concur, and I am pretty sure that no one has all the information to make that estimation. Network, hosting and storage are all under

Re: Fedora as an crowd founded project an additional funding source to our sponsor

2013-07-26 Thread Olav Vitters
On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 01:32:22PM +, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: Fedora the project which means two entirely separated infrastructures. yeah sure these two might be communicating heavily between themselves unless ofcourse you want to risk issues from either the company or the project

Re: Fedora as an crowd founded project an additional funding source to our sponsor

2013-07-26 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 26.07.2013 15:32, schrieb Jóhann B. Guðmundsson: On 07/26/2013 01:07 PM, Michael Scherer wrote: Working in IT @Red Hat, I concur, and I am pretty sure that no one has all the information to make that estimation. Network, hosting and storage are all under different budgets for different

Re: Fedora as an crowd founded project an additional funding source to our sponsor

2013-07-25 Thread Brendan Jones
On 07/25/2013 12:11 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: On Wed, 2013-07-24 at 16:50 +, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: On 07/24/2013 04:40 PM, inode0 wrote: On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 11:07 AM, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson johan...@gmail.com wrote: The entire budget is not public so you won't get a definitive

Re: Fedora as an crowd founded project an additional funding source to our sponsor

2013-07-25 Thread drago01
On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 10:07 AM, Brendan Jones brendan.jones...@gmail.com wrote: On 07/25/2013 12:11 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: On Wed, 2013-07-24 at 16:50 +, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: On 07/24/2013 04:40 PM, inode0 wrote: On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 11:07 AM, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson

Re: Fedora as an crowd founded project an additional funding source to our sponsor

2013-07-25 Thread inode0
On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 7:04 AM, drago01 drag...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 10:07 AM, Brendan Jones brendan.jones...@gmail.com wrote: On 07/25/2013 12:11 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: On Wed, 2013-07-24 at 16:50 +, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: On 07/24/2013 04:40 PM, inode0

Re: Fedora as an crowd founded project an additional funding source to our sponsor

2013-07-25 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2013-07-25 at 10:07 +0200, Brendan Jones wrote: On 07/25/2013 12:11 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: On Wed, 2013-07-24 at 16:50 +, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: On 07/24/2013 04:40 PM, inode0 wrote: On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 11:07 AM, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson johan...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: Fedora as an crowd founded project an additional funding source to our sponsor

2013-07-24 Thread Chris Smart
On 24/07/13 11:50, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: Thought's comment flames? To me, crowd sourcing seems to work because it's about some exciting new technology that people have to have and it's the only way to have it. There's a buzz, an excitement that needs to light up twitter in order to get

Re: Fedora as an crowd founded project an additional funding source to our sponsor

2013-07-24 Thread Brendan Jones
On 07/24/2013 03:50 AM, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: Earlier this evening I was asked how I expected Fedora to function in any way similarly to how it does now without the backing of one or more organizations like Red Hat. I gave the quick answer through donations since I was not in mood to

Re: Fedora as an crowd founded project an additional funding source to our sponsor

2013-07-24 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 07/24/2013 07:33 AM, Brendan Jones wrote: On 07/24/2013 03:50 AM, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: Earlier this evening I was asked how I expected Fedora to function in any way similarly to how it does now without the backing of one or more organizations like Red Hat. I gave the quick answer

Re: Fedora as an crowd founded project an additional funding source to our sponsor

2013-07-24 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 07/24/2013 07:33 AM, Brendan Jones wrote: On 07/24/2013 03:50 AM, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: Earlier this evening I was asked how I expected Fedora to function in any way similarly to how it does now without the backing of one or more organizations like Red Hat. I gave the quick answer

Re: Fedora as an crowd founded project an additional funding source to our sponsor

2013-07-24 Thread Stephen Gallagher
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/23/2013 09:50 PM, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: Earlier this evening I was asked how I expected Fedora to function in any way similarly to how it does now without the backing of one or more organizations like Red Hat. I gave the quick

Re: Fedora as an crowd founded project an additional funding source to our sponsor

2013-07-24 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 01:50:11AM +, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: snip Obvious we cannot have crowd funding for every moving part in Fedora that would just be ludicrous so we need to apply that concept upon the entire project, as in Fedora would be just a one crowd founded project. snip

Re: Fedora as an crowd founded project an additional funding source to our sponsor

2013-07-24 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 07/24/2013 11:35 AM, Stephen Gallagher wrote: While I*am* pleased that you've given some real thought to this, I think you may have missed the real point I was trying to make there, which also ties back to the original purpose of that thread. Fedora is hemorrhaging users to other

Re: Fedora as an crowd founded project an additional funding source to our sponsor

2013-07-24 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 07/24/2013 12:15 PM, Darryl L. Pierce wrote: On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 01:50:11AM +, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: snip Obvious we cannot have crowd funding for every moving part in Fedora that would just be ludicrous so we need to apply that concept upon the entire project, as in Fedora

Re: Fedora as an crowd founded project an additional funding source to our sponsor

2013-07-24 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 12:37:09PM +, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: On 07/24/2013 12:15 PM, Darryl L. Pierce wrote: On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 01:50:11AM +, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: snip Obvious we cannot have crowd funding for every moving part in Fedora that would just be ludicrous

Re: Fedora as an crowd founded project an additional funding source to our sponsor

2013-07-24 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 07/24/2013 12:49 PM, Darryl L. Pierce wrote: On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 12:37:09PM +, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: On 07/24/2013 12:15 PM, Darryl L. Pierce wrote: On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 01:50:11AM +, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: snip Obvious we cannot have crowd funding for every

Re: Fedora as an crowd founded project an additional funding source to our sponsor

2013-07-24 Thread Stephen Gallagher
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/24/2013 08:31 AM, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: On 07/24/2013 11:35 AM, Stephen Gallagher wrote: While I *am* pleased that you've given some real thought to this, I think you may have missed the real point I was trying to make there, which

Re: Fedora as an crowd founded project an additional funding source to our sponsor

2013-07-24 Thread Josh Boyer
On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 9:23 AM, Stephen Gallagher sgall...@redhat.com wrote: Other for the fact that this would allow everyone to contribute to the project not just Red Hat which in turn would make us less depended on it ( or they spending money on us from their point of view ). My

Re: Fedora as an crowd founded project an additional funding source to our sponsor

2013-07-24 Thread inode0
On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 7:49 AM, Darryl L. Pierce mcpie...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 12:37:09PM +, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: On 07/24/2013 12:15 PM, Darryl L. Pierce wrote: On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 01:50:11AM +, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: snip Obvious we cannot have

Re: Fedora as an crowd founded project an additional funding source to our sponsor

2013-07-24 Thread Jiri Eischmann
Jóhann B. Guðmundsson píše v St 24. 07. 2013 v 10:01 +: On 07/24/2013 07:33 AM, Brendan Jones wrote: On 07/24/2013 03:50 AM, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: Earlier this evening I was asked how I expected Fedora to function in any way similarly to how it does now without the

Re: Fedora as an crowd founded project an additional funding source to our sponsor

2013-07-24 Thread inode0
On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 8:23 AM, Stephen Gallagher sgall...@redhat.com wrote: My understanding is that Fedora is registered as a non-profit organization in the United States which I believe allows for anyone to donate to it *today* if they so chose. The fact that the only donations we see are

Re: Fedora as an crowd founded project an additional funding source to our sponsor

2013-07-24 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 07/24/2013 01:23 PM, Stephen Gallagher wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/24/2013 08:31 AM, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: On 07/24/2013 11:35 AM, Stephen Gallagher wrote: While I *am* pleased that you've given some real thought to this, I think you may have missed

Re: Fedora as an crowd founded project an additional funding source to our sponsor

2013-07-24 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 09:05:40AM -0500, inode0 wrote: On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 7:49 AM, Darryl L. Pierce mcpie...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 12:37:09PM +, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: We would need to form a financial sig that handles that. Are these people going to be

Re: Fedora as an crowd founded project an additional funding source to our sponsor

2013-07-24 Thread inode0
On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 9:31 AM, Darryl L. Pierce mcpie...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 09:05:40AM -0500, inode0 wrote: On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 7:49 AM, Darryl L. Pierce mcpie...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 12:37:09PM +, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: We would need

Re: Fedora as an crowd founded project an additional funding source to our sponsor

2013-07-24 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 07/24/2013 02:08 PM, Jiri Eischmann wrote: But let me add a link to this discussion: http://opensource.com/business/13/7/donations-open-source-projects I think I've got some experience with how open source projects work and there is a lot of truth in that article. From an opensource

Re: Fedora as an crowd founded project an additional funding source to our sponsor

2013-07-24 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 07/24/2013 02:13 PM, inode0 wrote: Fedora is not any sort of legally recognized entity as far as I know. And the fact that the vast majority of contributions are time rather than money is because in order to contribute money requires one to send a check made out to Red Hat and I don't think

Re: Fedora as an crowd founded project an additional funding source to our sponsor

2013-07-24 Thread inode0
On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 10:09 AM, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson johan...@gmail.com wrote: On 07/24/2013 02:13 PM, inode0 wrote: Fedora is not any sort of legally recognized entity as far as I know. And the fact that the vast majority of contributions are time rather than money is because in order to

Re: Fedora as an crowd founded project an additional funding source to our sponsor

2013-07-24 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 9:50 PM, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson johan...@gmail.com wrote: I gave the quick answer through donations Reading through this thread, it seems to me that you are wanting to change something you don't understand. While I am not a RH employee, I have been deeply involved in

Re: Fedora as an crowd founded project an additional funding source to our sponsor

2013-07-24 Thread inode0
On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 10:24 AM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 9:50 PM, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson johan...@gmail.com wrote: I as a donor donating $20 would like those to run to $20? It's going to be a long road! 25,000 to 50,000 of those could get us

Re: Fedora as an crowd founded project an additional funding source to our sponsor

2013-07-24 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 07/24/2013 03:24 PM, Martin Langhoff wrote: The best I can suggest is: build that funding source, and get it to grow to an important size_without_ messing with RH as a sponsor. The cost of running Fedora is likely to be huge. Fundraising is incredibly hard, and generally fails. None ever

Re: Fedora as an crowd founded project an additional funding source to our sponsor

2013-07-24 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 07/24/2013 03:47 PM, inode0 wrote: On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 10:24 AM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 9:50 PM, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson johan...@gmail.com wrote: I as a donor donating $20 would like those to run to $20? It's going to be a long road!

Re: Fedora as an crowd founded project an additional funding source to our sponsor

2013-07-24 Thread Tomasz Torcz
On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 03:55:41PM +, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: On 07/24/2013 03:47 PM, inode0 wrote: On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 10:24 AM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 9:50 PM, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson johan...@gmail.com wrote: I as a donor

Re: Fedora as an crowd founded project an additional funding source to our sponsor

2013-07-24 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 07/24/2013 04:01 PM, Tomasz Torcz wrote: On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 03:55:41PM +, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: On 07/24/2013 03:47 PM, inode0 wrote: On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 10:24 AM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 9:50 PM, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson

Re: Fedora as an crowd founded project an additional funding source to our sponsor

2013-07-24 Thread inode0
On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 11:07 AM, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson johan...@gmail.com wrote: On 07/24/2013 04:01 PM, Tomasz Torcz wrote: On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 03:55:41PM +, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: On 07/24/2013 03:47 PM, inode0 wrote: On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 10:24 AM, Martin Langhoff

Re: Fedora as an crowd founded project an additional funding source to our sponsor

2013-07-24 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 07/24/2013 04:40 PM, inode0 wrote: On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 11:07 AM, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson johan...@gmail.com wrote: The entire budget is not public so you won't get a definitive answer for a large portion of the budget. Why is it not public any reason why we the community cannot know how

Re: Fedora as an crowd founded project an additional funding source to our sponsor

2013-07-24 Thread inode0
On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 11:50 AM, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson johan...@gmail.com wrote: On 07/24/2013 04:40 PM, inode0 wrote: On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 11:07 AM, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson johan...@gmail.com wrote: The entire budget is not public so you won't get a definitive answer for a large portion

Re: Fedora as an crowd founded project an additional funding source to our sponsor

2013-07-24 Thread Jef Spaleta
On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 8:50 AM, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson johan...@gmail.com wrote: The infrastructure cost ( with the exception of any paid manpower ) is what sets the baseline for host/run and that cost is what would determine the infra/hosting tax % or at least gives a number for a minimum we

Re: Fedora as an crowd founded project an additional funding source to our sponsor

2013-07-24 Thread Lars Seipel
On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 07:35:42AM -0400, Stephen Gallagher wrote: Fedora is hemorrhaging users to other distributions (and to closed-source platforms). Do we actually know that this is the case? The statistics wiki page does show a drop of total repository connections around Fedora 15 but

Re: Fedora as an crowd founded project an additional funding source to our sponsor

2013-07-24 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 07/24/2013 05:02 PM, Jef Spaleta wrote: So all you can do is gather the core metrics for utility use... cpu/band/storage... and with those metrics in hand price what it would take to build and run a koji builder in the public cloud as a starting point and plan your initial crowdsourcing

Re: Fedora as an crowd founded project an additional funding source to our sponsor

2013-07-24 Thread Jef Spaleta
On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 10:08 AM, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson johan...@gmail.com wrote: On 07/24/2013 05:02 PM, Jef Spaleta wrote: So all you can do is gather the core metrics for utility use... cpu/band/storage... and with those metrics in hand price what it would take to build and run a koji

Re: Fedora as an crowd founded project an additional funding source to our sponsor

2013-07-24 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 2:08 PM, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson johan...@gmail.com wrote: Agree that's one way of figuring out but ( share number of servers/cpu/storage ) honestly i would have thought the infrastructure team would already know this. Well, luckily you never have to know everything

Re: Fedora as an crowd founded project an additional funding source to our sponsor

2013-07-24 Thread Michael Scherer
Le mardi 23 juillet 2013 à 21:03 -0500, Chris Adams a écrit : You apparently don't want anyone who is working on Open Source as part of any job (Red Hat or not) involved in the distribution you support (since you said you don't value system admins fixing things while on the clock the same

Re: Fedora as an crowd founded project an additional funding source to our sponsor

2013-07-24 Thread Michael Scherer
Le mercredi 24 juillet 2013 à 10:31 -0400, Darryl L. Pierce a écrit : On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 09:05:40AM -0500, inode0 wrote: On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 7:49 AM, Darryl L. Pierce mcpie...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 12:37:09PM +, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: We would need

Re: Fedora as an crowd founded project an additional funding source to our sponsor

2013-07-24 Thread Michael Scherer
Le mercredi 24 juillet 2013 à 08:42 +, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson a écrit : On 07/24/2013 07:33 AM, Brendan Jones wrote: On 07/24/2013 03:50 AM, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: Earlier this evening I was asked how I expected Fedora to function in any way similarly to how it does now without the

Re: Fedora as an crowd founded project an additional funding source to our sponsor

2013-07-24 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2013-07-24 at 16:50 +, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: On 07/24/2013 04:40 PM, inode0 wrote: On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 11:07 AM, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson johan...@gmail.com wrote: The entire budget is not public so you won't get a definitive answer for a large portion of the budget.

Re: Fedora as an crowd founded project an additional funding source to our sponsor

2013-07-23 Thread Chris Adams
You apparently don't want anyone who is working on Open Source as part of any job (Red Hat or not) involved in the distribution you support (since you said you don't value system admins fixing things while on the clock the same either). Here's one of Fedora's Core Values: Friends We