Re: Hoping to donate/sell a Talos II motherboard

[Toshaan Bharvani | VanTosh]

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>
> >
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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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