RE: Funding the build farm

[Cook, Malcolm]

OK - good - some numbers - I am not yet ready to make an internal pitch for $$, 
but hope to be within a month.  I have done this for other open source projects 
before, not quite to this extent, but think I can free up a one-time injection 
of $omething....  Definitely willing to try.... Film at 11. 

 > -----Original Message-----
 > From: Ludovic Courtès [mailto:address@hidden
 > Sent: Wednesday, November 18, 2015 3:21 PM
 > To: Cook, Malcolm <address@hidden>
 > Cc: Pjotr Prins <address@hidden>; address@hidden
 > Subject: Re: Funding the build farm
 > 
 > "Cook, Malcolm" <address@hidden> skribis:
 > 
 > > I don't know what kind of $ we're talking about, nor quite how to interpret
 > all those up and down thumbs at lwn.net, but (once I've finally deployed 
 > guix)
 > I'll certainly go to bat with my institute to free up some funding.
 > 
 > Thanks for your support!
 > 
 > Initially, we’re talking about:
 > 
 >   1. One big server, along the lines of 8 cores, 32G of RAM, and a fast
 >      4T drive (around 4–5k€ maybe?).
 > 
 >   2. Hosting, which needs to be figured out more precisely, but could be
 >      in the 0–2k€ range per year depending on what we choose.
 > 
 > That’s the back-of-the-envelope calculation.
 > 
 > What do people think?
 > 
 > Ludo’.