[HCoop-Discuss] Recusing myself from HCoop planning
Adam Chlipala
adamc at hcoop.net
Thu Aug 6 12:46:58 EDT 2009
David Snider wrote:
> 2) Lease dedicated servers with a company that has a generous support
> policy rather than co-locating our own servers in dog-eat-dog Manhattan.
>
This ends up costing us quite a bit more than buying
one-generation-out-of-date used servers. If a colo provider has
reasonable support rates, then it seems like shipping hardware to them
to set up is a more reasonable option.
> 5) All hours a member spends on an HCOOP project get logged so we can
> easily recognize where our bottlenecks will be should a member leave.
>
Be careful with suggestions like this that require volunteers to expend
extra effort on a bureaucratic requirement that will seldom lead to
useful outcomes. It's hard enough to find volunteers as is.
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