Hey Nuritzi! Thanks for this! One note: the GNOME Foundation recently received two additional not-Arm machines from Red Hat which have been racked and installed already. I originally had a chat about this with Oliver and we thought making a joint announcement with the new Arm hardware was probably a good move. Do you think we can make it happen?
We definitely want to thank Red Hat for the continued support. 2016-04-27 0:03 GMT+02:00 Nuritzi Sanchez <nurit...@gmail.com>: > Hi Everyone, > > Alberto Ruiz suggested adding a news item about the recent ARM donations > that the GNOME Foundation received. We've drafted a news item and have > scheduled it to post tomorrow (Wednesday) morning at 10:00 UTC. If you have > access to the website, you can check out the preview here: > https://www.gnome.org/?p=7132&preview=true. I'm also including the text > below. > > Please let me know if you have any feedback. We can edit the post before > doing a social media blast for it later on Wednesday afternoon or Thursday > morning PDT. > > Thanks! > > Best, > Nuritzi > > > April 27, 2016 > > The GNOME Foundation welcomes ARM device donations > > ORINDA, CA. Recently, the GNOME Foundation sent out a request seeking > donations of ARM build server hardware so that the GNOME project could > improve the support and quality of the GNOME desktop on ARM devices. > > We quickly received a great deal of support from the larger GNOME community > and would like to thank and acknowledge the people and companies behind each > of the donations offered and accepted. All of the donated systems will be > used to build and test the GNOME desktop and its applications on both the > 32-bit and 64-bit versions of the ARM architecture. > > A big thank you to the following generous donors and supporters: > > ARM > > Andrew Wafaa from ARM quickly responded to our request and reached out > internally to find us some hardware. In just a few weeks, he was able to > secure an OVERDRIVE 3000 from SoftIron which has an octa-core AMD Opteron > A1100 64-bit Cortex A57 ARM processor with 16Gb of RAM and 1TB hard disk. > This machine is already being hosted in the Red Hat Phoenix datacenter where > other GNOME servers are located. > > Banana Pi > > Leo Xu from Banana Pi reached out to us and donated a total of five Single > Board Computers with different Allwinner ARM chips. We will send them to > developers interested in enabling such hardware for use with GNOME. > > Codethink & Endless > > Paul Sherwood from Codethink reached out to us offering us several blades at > Codethink’s HP Moonshot system hosted by them in the UK. Endless is > sponsoring a project with Codethink to use this hardware to make xdg-app > runtime, SDK and app builds for ARM. > > Qualcomm > > Manik Taneja and Victor Ruiz from Canonical reached out to Ketal Gandhi at > Qualcomm about GNOME’s need for ARM hardware. Gandhi was able to have > Qualcomm donate four Dragonboard 410c Single Board Computers from the > 96boards project. These boards will provide a great platform for application > developers who want to test their apps in ARM. > > Other Offers > > The Foundation would like to give its thanks to several other people who > offered help: > > – Arc Riley who kindly offered rack space > > – Michael Larabel from Phoronix who offered a lot of unused PandaBoards > > – Kevin Fenzi from Fedora who offered hardware from the Fedora > infrastructure > > – Mikael Frykholm from Tranquillity Hosting offering us rack space > > – David Tischler from miniNodes.com offering to buy Raspberry Pi 3s for us > if needed > > – Yann Leger from scaleway.com who committed to offering ARM servers in the > future > > ARM support will be added initially to the sdk.gnome.org initiative where > binary releases of the GNOME platform and applications will be built. > End-users and developers can use the results on a wide variety of Linux > systems, running inside xdg-app sandboxes. Later, the GNOME project also > hopes to add ARM support to the GNOME Continuous project, so that the latest > development versions of the whole GNOME desktop will also be built and > tested on ARM systems. > > These initiatives will allow the Foundation and its developers to build and > test the GNOME desktop on ARM systems, helping to further the mission of the > GNOME Foundation to bring a free and powerful desktop environment to as many > people as possible. > > > ............................................................................. > > Nuritzi Sanchez | +1.650.218.7388 | Endless > > _______________________________________________ > engagement-list mailing list > engagement-list@gnome.org > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/engagement-list > -- Cheers, Andrea Debian Developer, Fedora / EPEL packager, GNOME Infrastructure Team Coordinator, GNOME Foundation Board of Directors Secretary, GNOME Foundation Membership & Elections Committee Chairman Homepage: http://www.gnome.org/~av _______________________________________________ engagement-list mailing list engagement-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/engagement-list
