[Marketing] requirements

[Warden, Matt]

On Jun 8, Lachlan Cannon had something to say about Re: [Marketing] requirements

>Warden, Matt said:
>> no, this letter was to get a quote.
>>
>> if you would like us to develop strict requirements, that's a separate
>> thing. but i asked you guys to develop the markeing part of something
>> to get a quote. that is the sole purpose.
>
>I disagree, Matt. When we're getting a quote (bargaining as it were) we
>should start off bidding high. Specifying everything we need, and everything
>we want. then we we get the offers in if we don't have any that is within
>our means we can start to bargain down from there...

If we have plenty of time to get quotes on unrealistic "requirements" that
we, a non-profit organization with an income of like $30/month(?), can't
possibly afford, then great.

Might as well consider dedicated hosting too. Or, we could rent out our
own office space, run a coupld T1s to it, and have our own little hosting
company just for evolt.org.

I think that's about as facetious as what some are suggesting.

I guess it's good that you cc'd finance on this.

The fact is, we were asked for *requirements*

So, i figure: maybe I have the wrong idea of what a requirement is. My
trusty dictionary says a requirement is:

"something essential to the existence or occurrence of something else"

so, in this case, requirements would be anything that is absolutely needed
for the services to continue to exist.

this would be things like a place to store the machines

i think we can do better than martin's office, but if we can't afford
anything better, than that's our best option. get it?

if we can find a host that will offer unlimited bandwidth, 100% uptime,
someone that will sit next to the machine and tail the logfiles, and 70
hours of backup power, and hourly tape backups, and an extra CPU or two on
teh budget we (will eventually) have, that'd be wonderful.

so, yeah, we want that. good luck?

appraoch it however you want. just find a host.

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mattwarden
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