[Soc-coordination] hardware for SoC projects?

[Daniel Pocock]

One other thing that comes to mind from the message broker discussion:
should students be encouraged to base their projects on new hardware
requirements (e.g. a new box for running a message broker or some
database or whatever)?

Can the SoC team go to the DSA team or DPL to get provisional budget
approval, e.g. if this student/project is selected, Debian is 100%
committed to buy the hardware (or allocate existing hardware) to run the
student's project?

I don't think students should be deterred from doing projects that
involve new hardware resources, this happens in real world projects all
the time.