Ludovic Courtès writes: > Hi! > > As you know the fundraiser has given us $8,000+ thanks to everyone here. > (8,266 to be precise, see > <http://static.fsf.org/nosvn/banners/2015fundraiser/guix-fundraiser-2016.html>.) > > We intend to buy a server with hardware from Minifree¹, which can run > Libreboot. Mark has already written a draft spec of the machine > (Minifree doesn’t sell ready-to-use boxes yet), and we’re at the stage > where we need to double-check that everything will work out correctly. > This should be less than $4,000. > > The plan is to host the machine at Aquilenet², a French non-profit > (“association loi 1901”) registered as an ISP in the region of Bordeaux. > Andreas, Cyril, Mathieu, and myself are members of this organization; > Samuel Thibault, whom you may know from his work on the Hurd and Debian, > is one of the talented hackers leading it. Hosting will cost on the > order of 600€ a year. > > We’ll send updates as we make progress on this front. > > Ludo’. > > ¹ http://minifree.org/product/libreboot-d16/ > ² https://www.aquilenet.fr
Horray! Glad to see that funding -> action has worked out nicely :)
