On Sun, 2017-10-01 at 15:14 +0200, Greg Harvey wrote: > I'm still left wondering about a few practical things though - for > example, how is hosting things like the VCS, the mirrors, etc. > organised and paid for (or maybe it isn't paid for, hence the > partners?) Each service has an admin team and the Debian sysadmin team run the systems that the services run on using hosting provided gratis by our hosting partners and hardware either provided gratis by our hardware partners or purchased through general Debian funding. The mirrors are hosted and run by organisations around the world who want to have faster access to the Debian archive, or want their customers or users to use less external bandwidth. https://www.debian.org/mirror/sponsors > Who organises official events and how are they organised? The annual Debian conference is organised in a different location each year by a new local team, who are advised by the global team. https://wiki.debconf.org/ Other events are organised by local groups and Debian contributors. > Who funds events, if anyone? Events are funded through Debian's general funding, which comes from donations and sponsorship of the annual Debian conference. > This sort of stuff... maybe it's all outsourced to SPI? SPI is one of our "Trusted Organisations", each of which holds assets on our behalf and enters into agreements where we need a legal entity. Some of these have paid staff members and others are volunteer based. https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Treasurer/Organizations > Wondering how Debian avoid this, or how they manage it, if it's > simply unavoidable for a large FOSS project? Most of the TOs take a percentage of donations to their member projects in order to cover their costs. -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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