[Sugar-devel] Fwd: News Item: ARM Donations

[Tony Anderson]

Should we donate an XO-1.75 and an XO-4?

Tony

On 04/27/2016 02:07 PM, Chris Leonard wrote:
> New GNOME ARM hardware upstream.  Just thought this might be of
> interest with respect to XO-4 support.
>
> cjl
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Nuritzi Sanchez <nuritzis at gmail.com>
> Date: Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 6:03 PM
> Subject: News Item: ARM Donations
> To: Nuritzi Sanchez <nuritzis at gmail.com>
> Cc: marketing-list <engagement-list at gnome.org>
>
>
> 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.
>
>
> .............................................................................
>
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