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[Seth Alan Woolley <seth AT tautology.org>]

Hi Source Magers,

The QA team will need some old simple stripped-down hardware for testing 
iso installs and rebuilds and things like that.  If anybody's got 
anything lying around the house and could see giving it up for a good 
cause, I'd be happy to accept various hardware gifts.  I have amd64 (k8), 
x86, and arm, but no sparcs and no ppcs.  If anybody has an ibook with a 
broken monitor screen, for example, and could see giving it up or an old 
decommissioned sparc box or two, it would make our iso release procedure 
much more synchronized and regular.

I can pay for shipping myself if that's the only issue on some of the 
stuff I really need.  Please reply so I can make sure I don't get 
deluged with a whole bunch of hardware I can't do anything with (not 
that that's going to happen).  I really only need one thing of each type 
to test install isos and run prometheus on them to make sure our updates 
are working across architectures.

Here's a list of things I could use:

ppc mac -- anything really as long as it's newworld
sparc64 or sparch32
itanium (would be interesting to see if we could port to this)
old simple SCSI card and SCSI drive for testing scsi installs
anything else somebody would like better support for in every release,
  the odder the hardware the better.

I also could use a variety of boxes of various chips, everything from 
486 to pentium4 and earlier.  But I don't really need them at my 
premises since prometheus can be made to run on your own location.  If 
people want to sign up to help be a prometheus helper, let me know as 
well and I'll make sure you are made aware of everything you need to 
know.

If you need a donation to be tax deductible let me know as some of the 
team leaders are looking into setting up a US-based 501(c)3 organization 
to allow people to donate tax-ductible contributions.  This process can 
take a while, but approval is retroactive from the filing date.  If 
anybody knows about the tax systems of other countries, feel free to 
help us out there too.  We'd need a volunteer treasurer if anybody has 
experience with treasury.  I do and so do a number of team leaders as 
many of us run our own businesses, but it would be best if we had a 
treasurer who had their sole responsibility be treasury.

The QA team can also use volunteers.  If you don't code but would like 
to help, the QA team is the team for you, since it involves just doing 
what I say ;).  QA team also looks good on a resume.

Seth

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