Re: QEMU Summit Minutes 2024

["Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com>]

On Thu, Oct 31, 2024 at 01:32:09PM +0000, Peter Maydell wrote:
> Infrastructure and Funding
> --------------------------
> 
> Up until now we have been running our CI and infrastructure based on
> donations of services/credits from various hosting providers (first
> Rackspace, then Azure, and now DigitalOcean).  But because each of
> these infrastructure sponsors has their own differing idea of what
> infra to offer OSS projects for free, we end up with awkward
> migrations of our systems each time we switch to a different infra
> sponsor.
> 
> Paolo proposed, going forward, to instead seek monetary sponsorships,
> potentially multi-year, that give us a recurring funding stream long
> term.  We can then use this to fund CI and similar requirements.

On that theme, we also already accept adhoc donations from individuals
but have never made this very obvious, instead hiding the paypal link.

Now that we have a clear desire to try to fund our own project services
more directly, we should be more open to receiving adhoc donations from
individuals too.

We don't need to aggressively nag people, but there's little harm in
having a link to donations more prominently featured IMHO. Thus I
created a qemu-web proposal to put a donations link in the nav bar of
the front page:

   https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu-web/-/merge_requests/7

With regards,
Daniel
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