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Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2023 11:11:10 +0100
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Subject: Re: Hoping to donate/sell a Talos II motherboard
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To: Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl@lkcl.net>,
        "jbranso@dismail.de" <jbranso@dismail.de>
Cc: "guix-devel@gnu.org" <guix-devel@gnu.org>,
        "debian-devel@lists.debian.org" <debian-devel@lists.debian.org>,
        "debian-hpc@lists.debian.org" <debian-hpc@lists.debian.org>,
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        "misc@openbsd.org" <misc@openbsd.org>,
        Sameer Shende <sameer@cs.uoregon.edu>
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From: Toshaan Bharvani | VanTosh <toshaan@vantosh.com>
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On 01/03/2023 03:37, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
> 
> 
> On Tuesday, February 28, 2023, <jbranso@dismail.de 
> <mailto: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?



> 
> 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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> <https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68>
> 

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