Re: Hoping to donate/sell a Talos II motherboard

[Toshaan Bharvani | VanTosh <toshaan@vantosh.com>]

On 01/03/2023 14:12, jbranso@dismail.de wrote:
> March 1, 2023 5:11 AM, "Toshaan Bharvani | VanTosh" <toshaan@vantosh.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 01/03/2023 03:37, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
>>
>> On Tuesday, February 28, 2023, <jbranso@dismail.de > <jbranso@dismail.de>> wrote:
>> Hello you fabulous developers!
>>
>> My friend has a spare Talos II motherboard that is currently sitting > in his house
>> in Indiana USA collecting dust.
>>
>> https://www.raptorcs.com/TALOSII <https://www.raptorcs.com/TALOSII>
>>
>> I have convinced him to donate/sell it to an open source project or > developer.
>>
>> I reached out to Richard Stallman, and he agreed to take the board. > I am certain that the
>> FSF would put it to good use. My friend and I have not yet decided, > to whom we will give
>> the motherboard. Is it possible that I could give it to someone or > project, such that all
>> parties here would benefit?
>>> i am reasonably certain that Toshaan Bharvani would be
>>> prepared to do that although he would need to speak for
>>> himself.
>>
>> Yes, please, I am interested.
>> I would use it for PowerEL, LibreBMC and LibreSOC.
>> All open source projects.
>> Is this just a board or also a CPU?
> 
> It is just the motherboard.  :)
Ok, I will be getting a CPU very soon, so I should be able to use it.


> 
>>
>>> the other option would be to donate it to the University of
>>> Oregon who already have POWER9 systems that are accessible
>>> to FOSS projects via the "OpenPOWER Hub". cc'ing Sameer
>>> as well.
>>> (in case that wasn't clear: FOSS projects can *already*, right
>>> now, apply for access to POWER9 systems, do i have that right,
>>> Sameer?)
>>
>> Is there any project or developer here that would be willing to take > this motherboard and
>>> create
>>
>> virtual machines that other projects could have access to?
>>
>> Thoughts?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Joshua Branson
>> FOSS enthusiast
>> https://gnucode.me <https://gnucode.me>
>>
>>> -- > ---
>>> crowd-funded eco-conscious hardware: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68 >
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>>
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> 
> So to summarize, my friend is donating/selling an Talos II motherboard.
> It does not have the CPU or RAM.  Our current options are:
> 
> Donate to debian
>     Who will mostly help debian distributions run on Power9.
> 
> Donate to the FSF
>     Who will probably set up a substitute server for guix and help guix
>     run on Power9.  As well as hosting mailing lists and other stuff?
> donate to the university of Oregon, whose contact is Toshaan Bharvani.
>    Any any open source project can apply for virtual machines on it.
> 
> Donate to the OpenBSD foundation.
>     Who will push the boundaries of software security, and whose daemons
>     like openssh benefit everyone.
> 
> Any other options that I am missing?
> 
> I'll let me friend know these options, and I will encourage him to donate/sell
> it by the end of March.  (He's on vacation for the next two weeks).
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Joshua
> 

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