| 18 Jun 2024 |
 @3650badcop:catgirl.cloud | i only hope that it's not some sort of money laundering strat | 08:24:10 |
 @dminca:matrix.org | ammunition, drugs and all the fun stuff | 08:33:22 |
| @dminca:matrix.org | * ammunition, drugs and all the fun stuff
joking ofc
| 08:38:57 |
 Jonas Chevalier | yes that was the play all along :-p | 09:37:56 |
| Jonas Chevalier | In reply to @glepage:matrix.org
Hi,
Maybe this is a naive question but, who decides on what to spend the nix-community funding ?
It seems like there is quite a lot of available money on the open-collective bucket.
Is the strategy just to stack up money 'just in case' or is it just because of a lack of ideas ?
I am just curious about this :) The project is essentially run by 5 people. We try to make decisions based on some sort of loose consensus. https://nix-community.org/administrators/ | 09:39:37 |
| Jonas Chevalier | Right now we're spending around the same amount that we receive every month, so the project is financially viable, thanks to all the people that are donating. If we get more funds, we generally tend to get more hardware. | 09:40:49 |
| Jonas Chevalier | With the current spend, the amount collected gives us ~3m of runway, so it's not that much actually. | 09:41:12 |
| Jonas Chevalier | Our focus with the fund has been mostly focused on hardware. To pay for CI builders, and also community boxes where people can run and debug their builds. | 09:42:39 |
| Jonas Chevalier | That being said, it would be interesting to expand the offering, if you have any other ideas. | 09:43:32 |
| Jonas Chevalier | The spirit is to try to be useful and help support the projects that are hosted within the org. | 09:44:19 |
| @3650badcop:catgirl.cloud | In reply to @zimbatm:numtide.com
Right now we're spending around the same amount that we receive every month, so the project is financially viable, thanks to all the people that are donating. If we get more funds, we generally tend to get more hardware. awesome!!! | 09:45:19 |
 Gaétan Lepage | Ok this makes sense ! I thought for a moment that we were way more advanced in income than in spending.
My original intent was to ask about hardware actually. I find very reasonable to enhance the hardware offering when possible.
The aarch64-linux builder (ampere altra) is an amazing piece of compute.
Having one or several very powerful x86_64-linux nodes could also help quite a lot.
But again, already having access to what we have today is amazingly useful (builders, build-bot, etc) | 09:46:37 |
| Jonas Chevalier | In reply to @3650badcop:catgirl.cloud
awesome!!! Yes, we should talk more about it because I think the community build boxes are really helping people debug things in nixpkgs. Imagine if you have a failed package on macOS but don't have a macOS box. Or if this is a very large build and you don't have a lot of compute or bandwidth available. | 09:46:47 |
