[ros-dev] Thomas Krenn Support

[Colin Finck]

Hi Matthias,

Thanks for registering us right away. For your information, we have 
already participated last year, but obviously didn't win anything.

We actually have enough servers/VMs for non-resource-intensive tasks 
(Buildmasters, DNS, File and Web servers, etc.), but could always need 
dedicated build machines. Actually, it's just due to the generosity of 
Olaf that we even have all these new Buildslaves, which run on his 
private build machine (including Patchbot). Still, as all of them are on 
the same machine, we cannot run them concurrently, so a new build server 
could solve this problem easily. If there are major benefits in building 
under Windows, the potential new server could even become our first 
server with a Windows host OS.

As far as I know, Jaix still offers to host more ReactOS servers in the 
data center of his company. They would run in a private LAN using the 
same public IP as Fezile then, but this shouldn't be a problem for build 
servers.

Probably Mingw-w64 should also participate in this program (as an 
individual project this year), so I'm CC'ing this to Kai. I also believe 
they have build server needs and as they already got a VM on one of our 
servers, they might offer to share the build server if they win any and 
we don't :-)

Cheers,

Colin
who is back


Matthias Kupfer <mkupfer at reactos.org> wrote:
> HI folks,
>
> the German company Thomas Krenn AG (Server Hardware) announced on LinuxTag an
> open source support programme for open source projectes, that register during
> LinuxTag. So I've use this chance and made the first step and registered
> ReactOS. Now we need some arguments what kind of hardware do we need and why
> resp. for what purpose. Devs please take a look at thomas-krenn.com and
> select a usefull set of hardware and describe what is usefull for. I think we
> should define specific tasks, not "upgrade exisiting hardware", but e.g. "New
> continuous integration server". Please send the description and the ID of the
> basket to me. The prices are:
> 1st: hardware for 2500 € (excluding VAT)
> 2nd: hardware for 1500 € (excluding VAT)
> 3rd: hardware for 1000 € (excluding VAT)
> 4th: hardware for 800 € (excluding VAT)
> 5th: hardware for 700 € (excluding VAT)
>
> They told me at the booth the chances increase with the detailed description
> of the intended use of the selected hardware (maybe combined with neediness).
>
> Best regards
>
> Matthias