[HCoop-Discuss] Recusing myself from HCoop planning

[David Snider]

On Thu, 06 Aug 2009 12:46:58 -0400, Adam Chlipala <adamc at hcoop.net> wrote:
> 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 one-generation-out-of-date used servers.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.

I don't see how this is possible. I have looked at dedicated server rates
which are far lower than just our collocation costs.

> 
>> 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.
> 
I think it's the lack of any sort of bureaucracy that is causing our
current diffusion of responsibility.

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