freedesktop - Sep 2024 - CI hardware sponsoring for Xorg / Freedesktop

Hello folks,


I fried of mine offered us a few metric tons of server hardware that we
can use for our CI and testing. He also offered to host and operate it.

The only problem is power costs. At his location (Serbia) power costs
seem to be relatively low compared to average western countries, but
for such a farm still too much for a single hobbyist.

So the vital question now is: can we find any sponsor - maybe X
foundation or F.D.O ?


Thinking this a few steps further: having our own little data center
would also give the opportunity to build up fully remotely managable
HIL setups for workstation hardware :)



--mtx

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Hi Enrico

We'd need to check with fd.o admins whether this technically makes
sense, and they expect from CI runners. Adding sitewranglers for that.
Also I guess a rough guesstimate of the power costs would be needed
for the board to approve.

Cheers, Sima

On Fri, 6 Sept 2024 at 16:32, Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
<info at metux.net> wrote:
>
> Hello folks,
>
>
> I fried of mine offered us a few metric tons of server hardware that we
> can use for our CI and testing. He also offered to host and operate it.
>
> The only problem is power costs. At his location (Serbia) power costs
> seem to be relatively low compared to average western countries, but
> for such a farm still too much for a single hobbyist.
>
> So the vital question now is: can we find any sponsor - maybe X
> foundation or F.D.O ?
>
>
> Thinking this a few steps further: having our own little data center
> would also give the opportunity to build up fully remotely managable
> HIL setups for workstation hardware :)
>
>
>
> --mtx
>
> --
> ---
> Hinweis: unverschl?sselte E-Mails k?nnen leicht abgeh?rt und manipuliert
> werden ! F?r eine vertrauliche Kommunikation senden Sie bitte ihren
> GPG/PGP-Schl?ssel zu.
> ---
> Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
> Free software and Linux embedded engineering
> info at metux.net -- +49-151-27565287


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