X.Org Foundation Board of Directors 2010 Election

[Daniel Stone]

Hi,

On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 11:31:49AM -0600, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Feb 2010, Daniel Stone wrote:
> > In fairness, I believe there are four machines currently racked up, even
> > if three of them are doing nothing whatsoever.
> 
> I removed Xorg's main list from my reply.
> 
> Does Xorg own the machines?
> 
> I am sure several companies or organizations could rack systems for 
> X.org for free, for example:
> 
> https://www.isc.org/community/hosted
> 
> (Disclaimer: I work for ISC.)

Per my reply to Matthias, not only does the Foundation not own them, but
they are very specifically donated to MIT.  I'm not entirely sure why
that was, but it was our donors' decision, and it came down (after
months of back and forth) to either accepting them on MIT's behalf, or
refusing the machines outright.

(Of course, we've subsequently been paying for the rack space for
 nothing, but there you go.)

In any case, while the offer is very kind, fd.o (and thus most of X.Org)
are already hosted at cs.pdx.edu, so the MIT component was useful in
that it gives us a right-coast presence as well.

Cheers,
Daniel
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