Hello, I've noticed that there has been much secrecy about the exact mainboard model of the build server G4JC (Luke R.) and Emulatorman (André Silva) have proposed.
From the private communication G4JC and Emulatorman have initiated with fauno and me: On 29.03.2017 04:32, Luke wrote: > I'm shipping Libreboot compatible Mobo/RAM/CPU + heatsinks + paste / > HDD + SATA cable. On 29.03.2017 18:15, Tiberiu wrote: > On 29.03.2017 18:01, André Silva wrote: >> > It is a x86_64 machine > I'm very curios what board it is. Is it ASUS KFSN4-DRE? Or ASUS > KCMA-D8? D510MO? D945GCLF? :-) I'm reading from the libreboot hardware > compatibility list: https://libreboot.org/docs/hcl/ Also, I didn't see on the mailing list any consensus on the budget for this build server. I believe this goes against the Parabola Social Contract. "4. [...] the community is to be included whenever there is a need to make a decision" https://wiki.parabola.nu/Parabola_Social_Contract Knowing this, the Parabola delegate fauno (Nicolás Reynolds) has personally expressed concerns about the expenses related to this proposal especially on the shipping of the chassis/UPS. The dismissal of fauno's concerns as "unnecessary drama" by G4JC goes against the Fiscal Sponsorship Agreement. 2. a) **Nicolás Reynolds is Parabola's Delegate** (the "Delegate") to communicate any and all donation-related (including but not limited to expenditure) decisions to Ceata's Council. Ceata will only object to the decisions to the extent Parabola is not in compliance with § 2(b) or § 5 of this Agreement, or when the Delegate's communication isn't in conjuction with a Parabola document or resource at parabola.nu website. https://git.parabola.nu/~~historic/ceata-agreement.git/tree/Parabola+Ceata_Agreement.markdown I've tried to be proactive and have come with solutions: On 28.03.2017 19:58, Tiberiu-Cezar Tehnoetic wrote: > Please excuse me if I'm overstepping here, but what would you say > about a librebooted KGPe-D16 build server for Parabola hosted in > Bucharest, Romania? [...] > If you believe this could be an option worth considering, I could > present you a budget (that I believe would cost you less than 400 > USD). On 29.03.2017 18:24, Tiberiu wrote: > Maybe we can try to find if someone is traveling from USA to Brazil? > They could transport the UPS/chassis in their checked-in baggage, > right? Later, I learned on the mailing list that the proposed board is a KFSN4-DRE. This mainboard supports DDR2 RAM and not DDR3 and is in many aspects inferior to the KGPE-D16 that FSF, Guix and other free software projects use and I proposed for the same amount of money. On 07.04.2017 01:47, Luke wrote: > * KFSN4-DRE - Motherboard (Libreboot compatible, but not re-flashed > yet, would feel more comfortable for it to be done on delivery anyway) So, my question is: has the Parabola community been presented and have you discussed options and the detailed budget for the new build server? Have you reached a consensus about this for fauno to tell me what needs to paid for? Have you discussed location of the new build server? This is relevant for the shipping/collocation. I'm looking forward to hearing what you all have to say on this matter. Tiberiu _______________________________________________ Dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.parabola.nu/mailman/listinfo/dev
