On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 6:21 AM, Jiri Eischmann <eischmann(a)redhat.com> wrote:
Hi,
you all probably noticed the recent Fedora hardware sweeptakes. I spoke
with Spot and he said in the future, he could get some hardware for
ambassadors to show Fedora running on it at various events.
We discussed this a bit in FAmSCo and we agreed that such hardware could
go to regional event boxes, or perhaps to ambassadors who represent
Fedora at events the most.
This is a case where long term (and I really mean short term)
ambassadors should get more involved in the budget process. We should
probably just have a capital budget so that more expensive systems
used at booths can be purchased on a regular cycle (laptops for event
boxes, multi-touch or larger displays, etc.). We can lean on spot for
another 10 years or we can try to grow up and be more self-sufficient.
For items of a smaller nature I don't think anyone in Red Hat should
need to be bothered about it. Ambassadors can regionally approved
spending $200 on Raspberry Pis and just go buy them if they want them
for use at events now.
Of course, if spot has extras that need homes I would welcome any open
hardware on which we can show off Fedora.
John