Re: Some Intel help..

[Sriram Ramkrishna <sri aracnet com>]

Sure, can you work with Ross and the sysadmin team?  They've been
working with the Intel folks .  I don't know what the limit Intel
will commit to, I'm sure they'll tell you. ;-)   I'll let them
figure out the spec and those of us local will be happy to help
out with any of the logistics so that Michael and Waldo can just
concentrate on the server stuff.

So the story so far for clarity is:

Sysadmin team is looking for a server to do: il8n work.  It is
currently hosted by a volunteer who using his own machine to do it.
They are looking for something that will replace it so the volunteer
need not use his own machine.  Secondly, they want a server that
can be a watchdog service to make sure all gnome servers are up
and functional.  They are looking for a place to host that machine
and I think they are hoping to find contacts at OSU where they
can place the machine.  Someone from the sysadmin team who lives
in beaverton is going to do the legwork for finding a host site.
The other machine, is probably slated to go to the colo supported
by Red Hat.

So to add to it, the GNOME infrastructure team is looking for
server(s) that might replace the aging developer.gnome.org machine
that hosts the developer docs, an extra wiki machine off load
window.gnome.org, and finally a tinderbox machine to do automated
builds.

I hope I captured everything.

Thanks guys for helping. GNOME infrastructure servers
are fairly old by today's standard and a refresh is most welcome.

Also, Waldo and Michael, do you need any information like Non-profit
documentation for the paperwork?  I think someone from the board
can help you there.

sri

On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 12:35:39AM -0500, Jonathan Blandford wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-11-08 at 12:07 -0800, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote:
> > So some time ago I had mailed this list saying that Intel was
> > going to provide some resources for servers and what not.  Much to
> > my embarassment Intel and the individual involved did not follow
> > through and I have not been able to get their attention since.
> > 
> > However, I have once again found some support with another
> > group within Intel who is willing to help provide a server(s).
> > I'm currently working with Greg LeBlanc on replacement server for
> > il8n.gnome.org in order beef it up a bit.  That said, it might be
> > good to be able to use it for other things.
> > 
> > Intel tells me that time is somewhat short for coming up with a
> > spec for the server.  I'm looking for some other uses for this
> > server in order to maximize it it's usefulness.  But essentially
> > we'll need a spec of some sort of what the server will look like.
> > 
> > Once you've guys settled on it's uses, I will need someone to work
> > with the Intel team directly.  I have Greg so far, but in case
> > there are cross uses one other person will do fine to work with Greg.
> 
> Hi Sri,
> 
> There are a number of good uses for servers that we have planned.  I
> don't know the issues with i18n.gnome.org, but here are a few more
> things we could use for the machine:
> 
> * library.gnome.org -- planned replacement for developer.gnome.org.
> Double extra points if they help set it up
> 
> * extra tinderbox machine.  Sun is trying to get us a solaris machine,
> but another arch would be nice
> 
> * extra wiki machine.  Offload some of the services on
> window.gnome.org.  
> 
> I'm Ccing gnome-infrastructure to see if they have other ideas.
> 
> Thanks,
> -Jonathan



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