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<DIV><PRE><TT><BIG>Though it is not entirely fixed, here are some news of a hardware donation made to Wikimedia Foundation</BIG></TT></PRE><PRE><TT><BIG>-------------</BIG></TT></PRE><PRE><TT><BIG>An employee at HP in France has contacted us, offering us free hardware. </BIG></TT></PRE><PRE><TT><BIG>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.</BIG></TT><TT><BIG><BR><BR><BR></PRE></BIG></TT><PRE><TT><BIG>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.</BIG></TT></PRE><PRE><TT><BIG>There were a lot of discussion on irc these days about these servers<BR>and many people got involved to determine what would be best doing.<BR></BIG></TT></PRE><PRE><TT><BIG>First we decided to accept the offer :-) The 6 servers will be picked up 2 french contributors, Med and Cereal Killer on thursday.<BR>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.</BIG></TT></PRE><PRE><TT><BIG>Med will install the Celerons. They will have a memory upgrade (the WMF will pay for this).<BR><BR>Yann has found us a hosting company ready to host the three squids for free, <A href="http://lost-oasis.fr/">http://lost-oasis.fr/</A> :-)</BIG></TT></PRE><PRE><TT><BIG>The three bigger servers will be shipped from Paris to Florida. We are currently trying to find cheap shipping cost.<BR>Any help/suggestion for *cheap* shipping is most welcome.
We'd prefer a company with good credentials,<BR>but there is no requirement in terms of shipping speed, so we might be able to find a good price.<BR>Please, help us if you know a good shipping solution</BIG></TT><FONT size=3>.</FONT> </PRE><PRE><TT><BIG>-----------</BIG></TT></PRE><PRE><TT><BIG>I will set a page on the future wikimediafoundation website (<A href="http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMF/Main">http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMF/Main</A> Page) to begin listing corporations helping Wikimedia projects.</BIG></TT><TT><BIG></PRE></BIG></TT></DIV></DIV><p>
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