- FedEx France in English
On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 08:32:38 +0000, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
<avarab(a)gmail.com> wrote:
About shipping have you considered DHL or FedEX, they
have a pretty
reliable global network.
----- Original Message -----
From: Anthere <anthere9(a)yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 01:15:03 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [Wikitech-l] HP Hardware donation
To: foundation-l(a)wikimedia.org
Cc: wikitech-l(a)wikimedia.org
Though it is not entirely fixed, here are some news of a hardware
donation made to Wikimedia Foundation-------------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 we
lcome.
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. -----------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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