[Hcoop-discuss] Poll on how much you're willing to invest in HCoop

[Adam Chlipala]

Here's a quick summary of the poll results so far with some color 
commentary.  I encourage anyone who hasn't voted yet to do so ASAP at:
    https://members.hcoop.net/portal/poll?vote=8

We have 27 respondents so far, out of 64 members.

Summing up the lower ranges of the people who have responded, we have a 
total of $272.  Summing up the upper ranges, we get $441.

Add in $3/mo. for everyone who hasn't voted, to cover what each such 
person seems comfortable paying already, and we arrive at a lower bound 
of $383/mo., which happily exceeds the $300/mo. we have quoted from 
Hurricane Electric, the offer currently ranked as the 2nd highest 
quality according to commentary on the ColocationProvidersEvaluation 
wiki page.

My conclusion is that it is no longer purely speculative to say that the 
co-op as a whole is willing to pay the costs associated with expanded 
operations.  The only other costs to think about are those for 
purchasing new hardware, which lend themselves more easily to 
traditional kinds of financing, because they're one-time.