Hosting offer from Alter Way
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. -- Dave Neary Community Action and Impact Open Source and Standards, Red Hat Ph: +33 9 50 71 55 62 / Cell: +33 6 77 01 92 13
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 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.
-- Dave Neary Community Action and Impact Open Source and Standards, Red Hat Ph: +33 9 50 71 55 62 / Cell: +33 6 77 01 92 13
On 10/09/2012 04:34 PM, Dave Neary wrote:
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 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)?
as long as we can host the services on various providers/sponsors, i don't have an issue mentioning someone providing resources as a supporter. ovirt case studies would be a great addition anyway.
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.
On 10/9/12 10:34 AM, "Dave Neary" <dneary@redhat.com> wrote:
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 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.
+1 - This all sounds very reasonable. What Alter Way wants in return is not unreasonable, and as you've already stated, the infra team is good with this. Thanks, Jon
On 10/10/2012 11:44 AM, Benedict, Jon wrote:
On 10/9/12 10:34 AM, "Dave Neary" <dneary@redhat.com> wrote:
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 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.
+1 - This all sounds very reasonable. What Alter Way wants in return is not unreasonable, and as you've already stated, the infra team is good with this.
+1, seems like a solid proposal. Carl.
* Dave Neary <dneary@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.
-- Dave Neary Community Action and Impact Open Source and Standards, Red Hat Ph: +33 9 50 71 55 62 / Cell: +33 6 77 01 92 13 _______________________________________________ Board mailing list Board@ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/board
-- Ryan Harper Software Engineer; Linux Technology Center IBM Corp., Austin, Tx ryanh@us.ibm.com
Great, thank you all! It looks like I have 4 +1s, no negative votes, so I'll take this as a decision tomorrow. Thanks, Dave. On 10/10/2012 06:03 PM, Ryan Harper wrote:
* Dave Neary <dneary@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.
-- Dave Neary Community Action and Impact Open Source and Standards, Red Hat Ph: +33 9 50 71 55 62 / Cell: +33 6 77 01 92 13 _______________________________________________ Board mailing list Board@ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/board
-- Dave Neary Community Action and Impact Open Source and Standards, Red Hat Ph: +33 9 50 71 55 62 / Cell: +33 6 77 01 92 13
On 10/09/2012 07:34 AM, Dave Neary wrote:
and to have their H2O service be included as a case study of an oVirt deployment on oVirt.org
Regarding the case study idea, I really like that. It's both a win for the sponsor and for oVirt to have such case studies. I was also wondering in general about how to keep to an editorial quality for such case studies? Would Board companies have some people with technical marketing writing/editing skills who can help review case studies? Basically, I'm thinking that having a reasonably quick review process would be useful and keep us from publishing anything site-unseen. I'm really looking forward to hearing about Alter Way's offering, too! - Karsten -- Karsten 'quaid' Wade, Sr. Analyst - Community Growth http://TheOpenSourceWay.org .^\ http://community.redhat.com @quaid (identi.ca/twitter/IRC) \v' gpg: AD0E0C41
On 10/09/2012 10:34 AM, Dave Neary wrote:
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 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.
I don't see anything objectionable here. +1 from me. As an aside, what sort of SLA can we expect from them as the hosting provider here?
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