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A little while ago I registered linuxvirtualserver.com and .net in
Wensong's name. The thinking was that sooner or later LVS would move out
of its current "developers mostly" environment, into the general public as
has say apache, squid, mysql... and it would be nice to have a group of
people available, competent at installing and debugging LVS, to do
commercial installs/tutorials for those who didn't want to do it
themselves.
Wensong is happy for such a group to exist and to help with it, as long as
he doesn't have to organise/run it. We arrived at the following possible
format for such a group:
1. people will become members of this group by giving some agreed fraction
of their lvs.com fee, to the "LVS promotion fund"
members will not be checked for technical abilities, ability to spell..
there being no mechanism and probably no need to do so. If you can make
money with your abilities then that's all that counts.
2. For the moment the "LVS promotion fund" is Wensong. He is a student and
has done most of the work on LVS, while most of the rest of us seem to
have jobs. Part of my thinking is that Wensong is not likely to be able
to make money doing LVS installs in China, there being less commercial
opportunities there than the rest of us have in Europe or USA, and to ward
off the possibility that TotalWorldDomination Inc offers him a salary that
he can't refuse to drop his degree and take LVS private for them. When
Wensong finishes his degree (2-3 yrs), we will re-evaluate the use of this
money, by which time we will have a better idea of where LVS.com is
headed.
3. The fraction of fees that go to the "LVS promotion fund" is up for
discussion.
I would like it to be high enough that Wensong gets more than beer money
out of it and that the member is making some commitment to the long term
developement of LVS. I don't expect lvs.com members to be making a lot of
money initially, the main problem will be making ourselves known to the
public (marketing). Eventually being a member of lvs.com will bring in
enough extra work to make up for the difference. The person can always
declare themselves and LVS expert on their own, not be an LVS.com member,
take all the fees and still help with development on lvs.org.
My suggestion is 50%. Wensong sugested less, but I don't know whether he
is being modest or practical.
4. It will operate mostly on the honour system. People will declare
themselves available, their names will go on the lvs.com page, they'll go
around promoting LVS and doing installs/tutorials and they'll send Wensong
some $ now and then. Wensong will know who has sent money but not who is
earning it or how much. When people don't wan't to be called up as lvs.com
members anymore, someone will take their name off the webpage.
Since lvs people are spread around the time zones, it should be possible
for people to be able to cover each other, if your client calls up with a
problem and you are asleep/out of town/on holiday.
Anyone interested, any suggestions?
Joe
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Joseph Mack mack@xxxxxxxxxxx
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