Re: Funds

[Ingo Jürgensmann <ij@2013.bluespice.org>]

Am 30.05.2013 um 11:24 schrieb Wouter Verhelst <wouter@debian.org>:

>>> I think hardware (both base computers, as I don???t recall seeing a
>>> Macintosh, only Atari (VM and real) and Amiga, here recently, other
>>> than what Finn does upstream and in Gentoo) and hardware extensions
>>> (RAM, NIC, HDD, oh and did I mention RAM) stuff is the thing that
>>> could help the best ??? assuming you find someone who???d accept them,
>>> turn them into actual hardware pieces and host/run them.

Another hardware related thing were we could spend money at (or maybe even forced to spend money one day): 
Repair of hardware!
Old computer stuff ages over time, especially capacitors dry out and need to get replaced one day or the other. 

>> I see three problems for the m68k port:
>> motivation (thank you for offering help, its good hear that somebody can
>> actually make use of our efforts), time (no, I don't think anybody could pay
>> for all the hours, but we could probably use more hands!), and only then
>> hardware/money.

One other idea: currently we're suffering from the missing ESP SCSI driver in that way that we could otherwise bring up to 5 additional buildds. Michael wants to port that driver, but is busy with day work and family, as everyone else of us as well. Maybe there's someone out there who can do the porting for us and get some bucks for that. Would that be an idea how to spent some money? (Although we don't know how much money that would be anyway?)

> Same here. Most of them haven't been powered on in a long time, though,
> and they probably won't be any time soon, either (no place/time to deal
> with that).
> I still have:
> - one MVME box
> - three or four macs (I'm not sure, and they're at the office which is
>  here I'm not right now)
> - an amiga that I've never had the time to check if it even works

When I remember you picture correctly, it was an A4000 desktop, right? If that doesn't work anymore and is otherwise not suitable (missing 060 CPU card), we could use that desktop case for Elgar or Crest, which are both not in big tower cases. I would like to see one of them at least to get refit into original desktop case, because it doesn't fill up that much space at our hosting donators.
Remember: when Elgar and Crest were hosted at NMMN, they occupied roughly a whole half of a complete rack, compared with maybe 4 rack units for a desktop case. 

>> I met several people for the first time, and even though we did not revive
>> m68k (or coldfire) immediately, I still think this was a good event.
> Yes, I agree.

I agree too. 

But I believe that a separate event is too much (to organise, get people together, etc). Wouter is already trying to convince everyone he can to visit Fosdem. Maybe a meeting within such an event would be easier to organise?

> For those of us who are DD's, getting travel sponsorship is ridiculously
> easy. And beyond doing an m68k meetup, debconf is definitely an
> interesting event.


For me as a non-DD (yeah, yeah, I know... ;) and as a non-coder a hackathon is naturally not as interesting as a larger event where the main focus would be on non-technical (coding) stuff. But anyway, I know and understand how important and productive these hackathons are and I'm all open to support such an event! :-)

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