[Wikide-l] [Fwd: [Foundation-l] HP Hardware donation]

Mi Jul 21 08:28:04 UTC 2004

German abstract:

HP France spendet Server. Keine Bedinungen, aber sie wollen das Recht, 
es erwähnen zu dürfen, daß sie gespendet haben. Angebot wird angenommen 
und die server werden in .fr installiert. Die drei grösseren gehen nach 
Florida. Sie suchen jetzt eine günstige Transportmöglichkeit. Habe ich 
was übersehen?

Grüße,
Mathias

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Betreff: 	[Foundation-l] HP Hardware donation
Datum: 	Wed, 21 Jul 2004 01:15:03 -0700 (PDT)
Von: 	Anthere <anthere9 at yahoo.com>
Antwort an: 	Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <foundation-l at wikimedia.org>
An: 	foundation-l at wikimedia.org
CC: 	wikitech-l at wikimedia.org

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 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.

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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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