Ok, cool. I just emailed them thanking them for the kind offer, but suggesting they send them to another project.<div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 2:31 PM, Andy Isaacson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:adi@hexapodia.org">adi@hexapodia.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="im">On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 02:02:58PM -0700, aestetix aestetix wrote:<br>
> If the machines don't get used, I think the appropriate step would be to<br>
> return them, with thanks, to the Wikimedia foundation so they can be used<br>
> for someone else's project.<br>
><br>
> What are the chances they would not get used? If people here think they are<br>
> high, I can go ahead and send them an email with "thanks, but no need" and<br>
> save a lot of trouble.<br>
<br>
</div>I think there's a very high chance the machines won't get used. I agree<br>
with Rubin that we don't want to have random machines racked up at<br>
Noisebridge with nobody signed up to maintain them and cover their<br>
operating expenses.<br>
<br>
The noisetor project is currently structured with rented machines and<br>
VMs. We don't currently need donated machines, and new nodes that we'd<br>
spin up would only save perhaps $50/month using donated hardware versus<br>
rented hardware; the upside of rented machines is that hardware failures<br>
will be replaced by the vendor, whereas with donated machines the node<br>
would be down until we ship them a replacement machine.<br>
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-andy<br>
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