<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>They gave us free credits expiring in a year. <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I'm pretty sure taking them away halfway through would be against their own ToS.</span> If they change sponsorship policies, I believe the worst that can happen is that they don't renew it when the credits expire. So we'll have time to move the servers elsewhere if "change of management" happens.</div><div><br></div><div>Your concern is valid, but note that the situation is nothing new. We have similar sponsorship from other providers.</div><div><br></div><div><div>-- </div><div>Nicolás</div><div>KDE Sysadmin Team</div><div><br></div>El 6 jul 2016, a las 05:47, Helio Chissini de Castro <<a href="mailto:helio@kde.org">helio@kde.org</a>> escribió:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>I'm happy because the good reputation of Digital Ocean.</div><div><br></div>But, out of curiosity, will be some formal agreement about usage and possible future changes be created ?<div><br></div><div>I mean, if we move some services of our infra to Digital Ocean, and for some reason they are bought from some </div><div>bigger company or get new management direction saying no-go, how we should deal with this subtle situations ?</div><div><br></div><div>[]'s Helio</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jul 6, 2016 at 10:37 AM, Boudhayan Gupta <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bgupta@kde.org" target="_blank">bgupta@kde.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On 6 July 2016 at 13:28, Thomas Pfeiffer <<a href="mailto:thomas.pfeiffer@kde.org">thomas.pfeiffer@kde.org</a>> wrote:<br>
> On 05.07.2016 21:36, Boudhayan Gupta wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> Hi Guys,<br>
>><br>
>> I'm excited to announce that DigitalOcean is sponsoring the KDE<br>
>> Community. Under their open source software sponsoring programme [1],<br>
>> they've very kindly set us up to use computing resources free of<br>
>> charge.<br>
>><br>
> Awesome news! Is this sponsorship already "public" from their side<br>
> (I don't see KDE on the list you linked to)?<br>
> And if it is: Would they like us to keep it low-profile or talk about it?<br>
> My first gut reaction would be to head over to G+ and spread the good<br>
> news, but of course I'd only do that if they want us to.<br>
<br>
</span>Go ahead! We'll make an official announcement on the dot in a few<br>
days, but of course we'll concentrate more on how we use the resources<br>
than on the sponsorship instead.<br>
<br>
Don't make it an "official KDE announcement" though. A personal post<br>
saying "this is crazy awesome!" is fine.<br>
<br>
> Cheers,<br>
> Thomas<br>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
-- Boudhayan<br>
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