Re: The new Hydra

[Christopher Allan Webber <cwebber@dustycloud.org>]

Ludovic Courtès writes:

> Hi!
>
> As you know the fundraiser has given us $8,000+ thanks to everyone here.
> (8,266 to be precise, see
> <http://static.fsf.org/nosvn/banners/2015fundraiser/guix-fundraiser-2016.html>.)
>
> We intend to buy a server with hardware from Minifree¹, which can run
> Libreboot.  Mark has already written a draft spec of the machine
> (Minifree doesn’t sell ready-to-use boxes yet), and we’re at the stage
> where we need to double-check that everything will work out correctly.
> This should be less than $4,000.
>
> The plan is to host the machine at Aquilenet², a French non-profit
> (“association loi 1901”) registered as an ISP in the region of Bordeaux.
> Andreas, Cyril, Mathieu, and myself are members of this organization;
> Samuel Thibault, whom you may know from his work on the Hurd and Debian,
> is one of the talented hackers leading it.  Hosting will cost on the
> order of 600€ a year.
>
> We’ll send updates as we make progress on this front.
>
> Ludo’.
>
> ¹ http://minifree.org/product/libreboot-d16/
> ² https://www.aquilenet.fr

Horray!  Glad to see that funding -> action has worked out nicely :)