[Consortium] We have to move!

[Daniel James]

Hi Ico,

Thanks for asking for my input. I've been out of the software world 
completely since 2018, but it seems to me the best bet might be for you 
(as a fellow academic) to ask the University of Oregon Open Source Lab 
for hosting:

https://osuosl.org/request-hosting/

They accept donations towards their hosting costs, which seems more 
sustainable to me than running a separate crowd-funding campaign for 
linuxaudio.org alone.

Cheers!

Daniel




On 08/12/2022 5:27 pm, Ico Bukvic wrote:
> This sounds like a great opportunity to revisit our summer thread. We 
> have allowed ample time for people to come forward and nominate others 
> for this role. I honestly do not recall if the same message percolated 
> through our other LA* lists, but this is something we can always revisit 
> at a later date. We need to do some housekeeping first.
> 
> As it stands right now, I see great involvement and commitment from 
> Jeremy and Robin. I also think that leadership should not be equal to 
> sysadmin. It is too much work for one person. I also saw thoughtful 
> responses from Fons (copying all whose names are uttered--please pardon 
> the added email traffic, not sure who still is on the consortium list), 
> Nils, and then there also Dave who has been one of the pillars of this 
> community. Granted, recently he has transitioned onto a darker side 
> (Mac), but at least he is still in the *nix land :-). Lastly, there is 
> Daniel James who started this all. Last I spoke with him, he did not 
> have the bandwidth to take over. Out of respect for his contributions 
> and in hope he may offer some of his wisdom in this matter, I am also 
> copying him on this thread.
> 
> At any rate, my recommendation is to start with this pool of people to 
> form the initial working group. I am happy to start the ball rolling (I 
> guess I already am) and remain on this list and provide my 5-cents worth 
> where it may prove helpful. Aside from that, I'll happily and quietly 
> continue to observe from the sidelines.
> 
> Best,
> 
> Ico
> 
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> Institute for Creativity, Arts, and Technology
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> 
> On Thu, Dec 8, 2022 at 11:44 AM Robin Gareus <robin at gareus.org 
> <mailto:robin at gareus.org>> wrote:
> 
>     On 12/8/22 15:42, Jeremy Jongepier wrote:
> 
>      > Drawback will be that it's going to cost us. It won't be much, in
>     the
>      > order of €50 to €100 per year, and personally I won't mind to pay in
>      > advance for the moment, I already do so for the linuxaudio.org
>     <http://linuxaudio.org> domain
>      > name and the current backups. But maybe we could think about setting
>      > something up for donations.
> 
>     Count me in. I can also send you something via IBAN directly.
> 
>     Thank you for you continued effort to keep the system up and running!
> 
>     --
>     robin
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Cheers!

Daniel