A - Yes as long as there is no obligation to stay after the 500 is spent. It will likely give us an idea of how much we need to spend for hosting. Also, we may be able to convince them to give us another package for promoting their services. Digital ocean is very well known and supports all sorts of FLOSS projects, podcasts, etc. I think they deserve our support as well if we can set that up in the future. If not, well we can explore other options in the mean time.
On 30 Nov 2017 05:17, "Bryce Harrington" <bryce@...2...> wrote:
On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 09:03:20PM -0500, Martin Owens wrote:
b. No
There are questions I have about an on going committment. A one year credit will doom us to pay Digital Ocean in the future, a $500 credit /per year/ would be better.
I'd rather no invest the sys-admin time into a platform that we don't know what will happen in a year's time.
Totally valid concerns there, although I think you've misunderstood - it's not a one year credit, it's a $500 credit we can stretch as far as we want. The entry level node is $5/mo, and even bumped up a few levels it could last for multiple years. I too would prefer a more open ended sponsorship with higher capacity hosting, but there's no guarantee of finding one.
These nodes appear to be pretty standard Ubuntu 16.04 images with docker and other typical provisioning. If service installation is done orderly and kept well-documented, migration to another platform (if we can find one) could be expected to be fairly straightforward. I could imagine using this as our backup host, if we were lucky in securing a higher capacity host at some point in the future.
Finally, yes, I get your concerns about not wanting to invest your sysadmin time on a platform that may end up being temporary, so will impose no expectations on you. To some degree I can probably handle it myself, but my plan would be to establish it as co-maintained by several volunteers in order to avoid bottlenecking.
Bryce
Best Regards, Martin Owens
On Wed, 2017-11-29 at 17:32 -0800, Bryce Harrington wrote:
Your vote is needed to accept hosting sponsorship from DigitalOcean.
- Accept DigitalOcean's offer of $500 credit on their virtual
hosting system for use in provisioning various Inkscape web services. Add DigitalOcean as a Bronze level sponsor for 2018. Authorize Conservancy to initiate registration with DigitalOcean for Inkscape.
- [ ] a. Yes, accept DigitalOcean's sponsorship - [ ] b. NoVotes:
Board Member | 1. | -------------------- |:--:| Bryce Harrington | | Josh Andler | | Tavmjong Bah | | Ted Gould | | Martin Owens | | Marc Jeanmougin | | Chris Rogers | |
Resolved:
Background:
In 2017, the Inkscape Board [solicited sponsorship offers][1] for web hosting. We [received an offer][2] from DigitalOcean that provides a credit for $500 in service on their virtual hosting platform. It doesn't match all the requirements we had called for, but it may be able to address near term service needs while we continue our search.
Registration with DigitalOcean requires entry of financial information so will need to be performed by the Software Freedom Conservancy staff for us. This vote authorizes them to do so.
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