Though it is not entirely fixed, here are some news of a hardware donation made to
Wikimedia Foundation
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An employee at HP in France has contacted us, offering us free hardware.
This is a no-strings-attached donation from a few friends at HP who want to support
Wikipedia. They reserve the right to mention this donation.
The machines offered are:* One 4U 6 CPU Xeon 750 with 1GB of RAM* One 4 CPU Xeon 700 with
2GB of RAM* One 6U 8 CPU Xeon 900 with 16GB of RAM and 2 SCSI drive max (which might work
as a web server box immediately)* 3 Celeron 600 1U with 20G/ide and 128M of memory.
There were a lot of discussion on irc these days about these servers
and many people got involved to determine what would be best doing.
First we decided to accept the offer :-) The 6 servers will be picked up 2 french
contributors, Med and Cereal Killer on thursday.
There will be a small shipping cost from Grenoble (the city where the servers come from)
to Paris, which will be taken by the WMF.
Med will install the Celerons. They will have a memory upgrade (the WMF will pay for
this).
Yann has found us a hosting company ready to host the three squids for free,
http://lost-oasis.fr/ :-)
The three bigger servers will be shipped from Paris to Florida. We are currently trying to
find cheap shipping cost.
Any help/suggestion for *cheap* shipping is most welcome. We'd prefer a company with
good credentials,
but there is no requirement in terms of shipping speed, so we might be able to find a good
price.
Please, help us if you know a good shipping solution.
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I will set a page on the future wikimediafoundation website
(
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMF/Main Page) to begin listing corporations helping
Wikimedia projects.
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