Message-ID: <b15683a0-4e0e-efe8-7ede-c3ee9ff8a886@vantosh.com>
Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2023 14:56:16 +0100
MIME-Version: 1.0
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101
 Thunderbird/102.8.0
Subject: Re: Hoping to donate/sell a Talos II motherboard
Content-Language: en-US
To: jbranso@dismail.de, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl@lkcl.net>,
        "rms@gnu.org" <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>
References: <87d4d0e8-c179-1a86-85c9-3b72e976c33a@vantosh.com>
 <0746b91ccfae1263220272a0507fa75f@dismail.de>
 <CAPweEDwJb+iSMnPhFU0H9WwHiyrNLQBM9S_-4yBvn7xq4HHuiA@mail.gmail.com>
 <7cf6e0db838036c690e5d91d6fd4850a@dismail.de>
From: Toshaan Bharvani | VanTosh <toshaan@vantosh.com>
In-Reply-To: <7cf6e0db838036c690e5d91d6fd4850a@dismail.de>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit



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 >
>>> <https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68>
>>
>> -- --
>> Toshaan Bharvani
>> +32-(0)476-66.70.55
>> toshaan@vantosh.com
>> @toshywoshy
>> ----------------------------------------
>> __ __ _____ _
>> \ \ / /_ _ _ _|_ _|__ ___| |__
>> \ \ / / _` | '_ \| |/ _ \/ __| '_ \
>> \ V / (_| | | | | | (_) \__ \ | | |
>> \_/ \__,_|_| |_|_|\___/|___/_| |_|
>>
>> http://www.vantosh.com
>> ----------------------------------------
>> --
> 
> 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
> 

-- 
--
Toshaan Bharvani
+32-(0)476-66.70.55
toshaan@vantosh.com
@toshywoshy
----------------------------------------
__     __        _____         _
\ \   / /_ _ _ _|_   _|__  ___| |__
  \ \ / / _` | '_ \| |/ _ \/ __| '_ \
   \ V / (_| | | | | | (_) \__ \ | | |
    \_/ \__,_|_| |_|_|\___/|___/_| |_|

        http://www.vantosh.com
----------------------------------------
--