[Pkg-r-builders] ISC proposal: Adding Linux Binary Builders to CRAN

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 30 March 2017 at 09:22, Hadley Wickham wrote:
| Hi Dirk,
| 
| Could you please confirm that you accept the funding, and provide a
| paragraph for the blog post?

Apologies. That slipped.

   The 'Linux Binary Builder' project is thrilled to accept the funding via
   the ISC Consortium of the Linux Foundation, and excited to get to work.

   We have already set up mailing and are currently discussing first steps.

   Incidentally, we would love to hear from anyone who could possibly host a
   dedicated server (we would provide) in a rack for us to use
   longer-term. We are proceeding with development using cloud-based
   solutions for the time being but foresee sufficient continued use to
   warrant a dedicated machine.

CCing the team in case someone wants to holler about the last paragraph.

Dirk

| 
| Hadley
| 
| On Fri, Mar 10, 2017 at 3:34 PM, Hadley Wickham <hadley at rstudio.com> wrote:
| > Dear Dirk Eddelbuettel,
| >
| > Congratulations, the ISC has accepted your proposal!
| >
| > Next steps:
| >
| > * Respond to this email confirming that you accept the funding by March 20.
| > John Mertic <jmertic at linuxfoundation.org> will contact you to discuss
| > payment specifics.
| >
| > * Please don't announce that you've been successful until the R
| > Consortium publicly announces funding results. We will aim to have a
| > formal announcement and press release by the end of March.
| >
| > * Please prepare a paragraph for the R consortium blog that briefly
| > describes your project. You may use the opportunity to solicit help
| > for your project. The blog post will include a link to your original
| > proposal so you don't have to.
| >
| > * As a condition of receiving funding, you will also need to provide
| > regular updates on the status of your project. We will have more
| > precise details on this in the future, but we will expect a brief
| > quarterly update, and a more detailed write-up when your
| > project is complete. We will publish all final reports.
| >
| > Regards,
| >
| > Hadley Wickham
| > Chair, Infrastructure Steering Committee
| 
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