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From: jbranso@dismail.de
Message-ID: <7cf6e0db838036c690e5d91d6fd4850a@dismail.de>
Subject: Re: Hoping to donate/sell a Talos II motherboard
To: "Toshaan Bharvani | VanTosh" <toshaan@vantosh.com>, "Luke Kenneth 
 Casson Leighton" <lkcl@lkcl.net>, "rms@gnu.org" <efraim@flashner.co.il>,
 "Efraim Flashner" <efraim@flashner.co.il>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org, debian-devel@lists.debian.org,
 debian-hpc@lists.debian.org, gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org,
 ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com, ~alpine/devel@lists.alpinelinux.org,
 misc@openbsd.org, "Sameer Shende" <sameer@cs.uoregon.edu>
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March 1, 2023 5:11 AM, "Toshaan Bharvani | VanTosh" <toshaan@vantosh.com>=
 wrote:

> On 01/03/2023 03:37, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
>=20
>=20On Tuesday, February 28, 2023, <jbranso@dismail.de > <jbranso@dismail=
.de>> wrote:
> Hello you fabulous developers!
>=20
>=20My friend has a spare Talos II motherboard that is currently sitting =
> in his house
> in Indiana USA collecting dust.
>=20
>=20https://www.raptorcs.com/TALOSII <https://www.raptorcs.com/TALOSII>
>=20
>=20I have convinced him to donate/sell it to an open source project or >=
 developer.
>=20
>=20I 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, > t=
o whom we will give
> the motherboard. Is it possible that I could give it to someone or > pr=
oject, 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.
>=20
>=20Yes, 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.  :)

>=20
>>=20the 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?)
>=20
>=20Is there any project or developer here that would be willing to take =
> this motherboard and
>> create
>=20
>=20virtual machines that other projects could have access to?
>=20
>=20Thoughts?
>=20
>=20Thanks,
>=20
>=20Joshua Branson
> FOSS enthusiast
> https://gnucode.me <https://gnucode.me>
>=20
>>=20-- > ---
>> crowd-funded eco-conscious hardware: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma6=
8 >
>> <https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68>
>=20
>=20-- --
> Toshaan Bharvani
> +32-(0)476-66.70.55
> toshaan@vantosh.com
> @toshywoshy
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>=20
>=20http://www.vantosh.com
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So to summarize, my friend is donating/selling an Talos II motherboard.=
=20=20
It=20does 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