Thanks for letting us know -- I agree.  The Softlayer avenue is
something that Chris Cunnington and Colin are researching.  While
everyone seems open to the idea so far we haven't actually voted yet
for putting "Squeak c/o SFC" on the Softlayer agreement.  As Chris C.
mentioned there are at least a couple of options and we want to
understand the benefits as well as all the "costs" of each option.


On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 10:35 AM, Tom Rushworth
<tom.b.rushworth at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 12/07/17 06:33, Chris Cunnington wrote:
>> Board members present: Colin Putney, Craig Latta, Chris Muller, Levente
>> Uzonyi, Chris Cunnington, and, special guest Ken Causey
>>
> [snip]
>> - Squeak is accepting the offer from Softlayer [1]. It is also looking
>> at an offer related to the Software Freedom Conservancy at Gandi. [2]
> [snip]
>
> I just got spam that purports to be from Softlayer with the subject:
>    "FREE RAM, HDD, and Bandwidth for a limited time only."
>
> If others get it too, I would suggest that we not support a company that
> uses spam as a marketing technique.  Here are some of the original
> headers, the rest are available if anyone wants them:
>
> |Reply-To: infoemail at softlayer.com
> |MIME-Version: 1.0
> |Message-ID: <1265193361.258205 at softlayer.com>
> |Subject: FREE RAM, HDD, and Bandwidth for a limited time only.
> |Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2012 04:28:03 -0500
> |To: tbr at acm.org
> |From: "SoftLayer" <infoemail at softlayer.com>
>
> Regards,
>
> --
> Tom Rushworth
>