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

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