Hosting offer from Alter Way

[Ryan Harper]

* Dave Neary <dneary at redhat.com> [2012-10-09 09:39]:
> Hi board,
> 
> The infra team have agreed that this is a good approach to follow.
> 
> Alter Way have clarified that thir offer stands even if we host our
> wiki and website on OpenShift rather than on their oVirt cloud
> service.
> 
> At this point, I need board approval of this hosting move, and the
> counter-part which Alter Way are requesting (namely, acknowledgement
> on the footer of pages of hosted services (Jenkins, Gerrit),
> acknowledgement as a sponsor of the project on the "Project
> supporters" page, and to have their H2O service be included as a
> case study of an oVirt deployment on oVirt.org
> 
> Personally I think this is all very reasonable.

I agree as well.

+1

> 
> I will be meeting Alter Way on Thursday in Paris - may I set a 2 day
> deadline for feedback and approvals/disapprovals, and consider the
> board concensus position at the end of that period (10:00 EST
> Thursday)?
> 
> Thanks,
> Dave.
> 
> On 10/02/2012 07:24 PM, Dave Neary wrote:
> >Hi all,
> >
> >Alter Way (oVirt user and community member, French company) have
> >generously offered to host some of our services as part of their efforts
> >to support the project.
> >
> >To give some background: The company is preparing a cloud offering based
> >on oVirt nightlies running on Fedora. They are a hosting company (among
> >other things) based in Paris, France.
> >
> >We talked to them about our needs for Jenkins, and after getting
> >reassurance on the bandwidth requirements for the Jenkins server, they
> >have ade the following offer:
> >
> >Alter Way will provide:
> >  - For Jenkins,  2 Bi Quad servers (with Jenkins running on bare metal)
> >with 8 or 16 GB of RAM each and 2 fast 146 GB disks each, with RAID 10
> >for the 4 disks
> >  - For other services (Gerrit, Mailman, wiki, git): 1 or 2 VMs hosted
> >on oVirt
> >
> >In return, they would like:
> >  - Recognition of the hosting in the page footer of the hosted services
> >  - Recognition as a project sponsor on the project sponsors and
> >supporters page
> >  - The also offer to have their cloud service serve as a case study for
> >the oVirt project
> >
> >I did discuss with Stéphane Vincent, their representative, that we might
> >want to host some services elsewhere - we have previously talked about
> >hosting the website on OpenShift. I've asked him (and am waiting for
> >clarification) on whether that might affect their offer.
> >
> >In the meantime, I would like the opinions of the infra team - does this
> >offer satisfy our needs and requirements for Jenkins? If that's the
> >case, I would like to ask the board if they approve of the offer and the
> >request to recognise Alter Way as a sponsor of the project?
> >
> >I will be seeing Alter way again next week at the Open World Forum, it
> >would be really great if we could finalise this by then, and concentrate
> >on getting a basic hosting agreement in place by then.
> >
> >Thank you all,
> >Dave.
> >
> 
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Ryan Harper
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