From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christopher Allan Webber Subject: Re: The new Hydra Date: Wed, 03 Feb 2016 15:56:48 -0800 Message-ID: <874mdpmjpb.fsf@dustycloud.org> References: <87lh715uvo.fsf@inria.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:57535) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aR7I6-00017q-8U for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Feb 2016 18:56:55 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aR7I5-0002by-3M for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Feb 2016 18:56:54 -0500 In-reply-to: <87lh715uvo.fsf@inria.fr> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Ludovic Court=C3=A8s writes: > Hi! > > As you know the fundraiser has given us $8,000+ thanks to everyone here= . > (8,266 to be precise, see > .) > > We intend to buy a server with hardware from Minifree=C2=B9, which can = run > Libreboot. Mark has already written a draft spec of the machine > (Minifree doesn=E2=80=99t sell ready-to-use boxes yet), and we=E2=80=99= 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 Aquilenet=C2=B2, a French non-profit > (=E2=80=9Cassociation loi 1901=E2=80=9D) registered as an ISP in the re= gion 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=E2=82=AC a year. > > We=E2=80=99ll send updates as we make progress on this front. > > Ludo=E2=80=99. > > =C2=B9 http://minifree.org/product/libreboot-d16/ > =C2=B2 https://www.aquilenet.fr Horray! Glad to see that funding -> action has worked out nicely :)