Date: Thu, 7 Dec 1995 21:13:53 -0500 (EST) From: Mail Archive <archive@cps.cmich.edu> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: Jonathan Cargille <jcargill@cs.wisc.edu>, Jon Loeliger <jdl@jdl.com>, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Donations (was Re: Second appeal for sup ...) Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.951207210136.24210C-100000@cps201> In-Reply-To: <26137.818387351@time.cdrom.com>
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On Thu, 7 Dec 1995, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > IF and only if people will donate the hardware for this. I can afford to > > spend the 100$ a month a friend of mine will charge to put a machine in > > Chicago Nap. This could be connected at atleast 10Mbit and possibly > > 100Mbit depending on wether or not the hardware is available. This would > > locate the machine in the worlds heaviest backbone node and be great > > access for everyone. All I ask from this machine is a spot to run a low > > use Web server from ( 300 - 400 hits a week) I would also be willing to > > maintain this piece of hardware for nothing more than this use. > > I'd be interested in pursuing this. Are you sure you have the > authorization to provide people with receipts and such? If so, I > would recommend that people simply send the hardware directly to you > since it would not be a project donation in that case (at least not > directly, though indirectly it would be quite nice). > For chicago I can not take NPO money but off from a dual homed T1 I can take NPO money. I as you know have moved to FreeBSD from linsux. I have spent the last 5 months making my move in our department. I now have 250 PC's running FreeBSD 2.1 most of which usually run WinNT or Win95 but they can reboot and work in unix if they wish. Th only this I need from donations are value ( I would probably request that they buy the product from Rod Grimes or another vendor the university already works with) mainly so I know we are not giving receipts out for more than the product costs. I need to have original sales receipts as well. The university would then ship them a receipt for their donation. I would probably have to have the parts tagged (Computer Center/Computer Science/ FreeBSD Project) inorder for the product to get directed to the right location. If you think this is a viable option I would like to start working on it right away. I would like to use our current P5-133 FTP/WEB server to start this project. This gives us a starting point and we can build from there giving the CS Department back a little of their investment. Mainly the big piece I need is more ram and a 3940 SCSI controller. I currently use a pair of 2940's a PCI ethernet and a PCI video which was purchased from Rod Grimes. The machine is 48Meg P5-133 256Sync Cache and 7gigs of drive. I can give accounts to the various developers/porters so that they can use a machine other than freefall to work on. This machine is planning on living on 2.1-RELEASE until a new Release or 6months has passed one or the other. But, as hardware comes in this can be put as a -current machine and we can have a -release machine. If this is ok with you then I will check into the actuall semantics of donations. This could be a big help to both of us. This will increase our PR and help the image of department out. The machine in Chicago would be nice, but as I said at the top this could only be done from say FreeBSD, Inc. because I would not be able to use donations for it, UNLESS I have the blessing of the university but I don't think that will happen ith in a reasonable time frame. Matthew S. Bailey mbailey@cps.cmich.edu
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