[OpenAFS] the future

Ted Creedon tcreedon@easystreet.net
Sun, 30 Sep 2012 10:52:51 -0700


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My intent was to foment a user uprising resulting in pressure on the .edu &
.com level administrators to provide funding from established budgets. More
of a corporate funding than individual contributions.

Perhaps a cc to the local spreadsheet managers would get the user needs
better communicated.

I.e. you can't aklog one time only until you fill out the poll, send it in
w/cc to local financial folks.

Tedc

On Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 8:41 AM, Troy Benjegerdes <hozer@hozed.org> wrote:

>
> On Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 02:49:08AM -0700, Ted Creedon wrote:
>
> > How about taking a AFS wide survey using a aklog token driven one time
> pop
> > up explaining that AFS is not being updated according to industry
> standards
> > and that it needs substantial financial support.
> >
> > Most users are charged for computer support one way or another. AFS needs
> > to be included just like Microsoft license fees.
> >
> > I.e. is there any way to get the users fired up?
>
> I like this. But I think for this to work we need a simple URL like
> 'http://openafs.org/donate' that that shows up in the command line aklog
> client, and on a clickable link in the GUI client.
>
> Currently http://static.usenix.org/about/openafs/ is the only 'donate to
> OpenAFS' link I can find, but that requires cutting a check. The landing
> page for donations needs to accept PayPal, Amazon payments, Dwolla, and
> Bitcoin, as well as form to click saying 'My organization uses openafs,
> please contact __________ who has purchasing authority'
>
> I think it would look better to have a full OpenAFS foundation with clear
> governance, but for the moment, all that is needed is some consensus to
> set up a 'donate' landing page on OpenAFS.org, and someone to set up the
> payment arrangements so checks get regularly cut to the address on the
> Usenix association page.
>
> If there is a consensus to go ahead with this, I would be willing to offer
> to handle the Dwolla and Bitcoin 'instant donate' links. I can beat
> whatever
> percentage Amazon and Paypal take and still make it worth my time, and I'll
> include the others because it makes for wider audience for contributions.
>
> If there is not a consensus to go ahead with this within a month or two,
> I'm going to (at whatever glacial pace I feel like it) release TFS
> version(s)
> for Linux, Android, and MacOS that have such a link and donate pages.
>

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My intent was to foment a user uprising resulting in pressure on the .edu &=
amp; .com level administrators to provide funding from established budgets.=
 More of a corporate funding than individual contributions.<br><br>Perhaps =
a cc to the local spreadsheet managers would get the user needs better comm=
unicated.<br>
<br>I.e. you can&#39;t aklog one time only until you fill out the poll, sen=
d it in w/cc to local financial folks.<br><br>Tedc<br><br><div class=3D"gma=
il_quote">On Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 8:41 AM, Troy Benjegerdes <span dir=3D"lt=
r">&lt;<a href=3D"mailto:hozer@hozed.org" target=3D"_blank">hozer@hozed.org=
</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1p=
x #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class=3D"im"><br>
On Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 02:49:08AM -0700, Ted Creedon wrote:<br>
<br>
&gt; How about taking a AFS wide survey using a aklog token driven one time=
 pop<br>
&gt; up explaining that AFS is not being updated according to industry stan=
dards<br>
&gt; and that it needs substantial financial support.<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; Most users are charged for computer support one way or another. AFS ne=
eds<br>
&gt; to be included just like Microsoft license fees.<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; I.e. is there any way to get the users fired up?<br>
<br>
</div>I like this. But I think for this to work we need a simple URL like<b=
r>
&#39;<a href=3D"http://openafs.org/donate" target=3D"_blank">http://openafs=
.org/donate</a>&#39; that that shows up in the command line aklog<br>
client, and on a clickable link in the GUI client.<br>
<br>
Currently <a href=3D"http://static.usenix.org/about/openafs/" target=3D"_bl=
ank">http://static.usenix.org/about/openafs/</a> is the only &#39;donate to=
<br>
OpenAFS&#39; link I can find, but that requires cutting a check. The landin=
g<br>
page for donations needs to accept PayPal, Amazon payments, Dwolla, and<br>
Bitcoin, as well as form to click saying &#39;My organization uses openafs,=
<br>
please contact __________ who has purchasing authority&#39;<br>
<br>
I think it would look better to have a full OpenAFS foundation with clear<b=
r>
governance, but for the moment, all that is needed is some consensus to<br>
set up a &#39;donate&#39; landing page on OpenAFS.org, and someone to set u=
p the<br>
payment arrangements so checks get regularly cut to the address on the<br>
Usenix association page.<br>
<br>
If there is a consensus to go ahead with this, I would be willing to offer<=
br>
to handle the Dwolla and Bitcoin &#39;instant donate&#39; links. I can beat=
 whatever<br>
percentage Amazon and Paypal take and still make it worth my time, and I&#3=
9;ll<br>
include the others because it makes for wider audience for contributions.<b=
r>
<br>
If there is not a consensus to go ahead with this within a month or two,<br=
>
I&#39;m going to (at whatever glacial pace I feel like it) release TFS vers=
ion(s)<br>
for Linux, Android, and MacOS that have such a link and donate pages.<br>
</blockquote></div><br>

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