Last call for the great hardware giveaway: now also blogged<http://www.mysociety.org/2011/10/13/we-have-servers-to-give-away/>, to make it easier for you to pass the details on to anyone else who might be interested (please do!).
Abi Broom mySociety office manager On 5 October 2011 15:59, Abi Broom <[email protected]> wrote: > Ladies and gentlemen, some of the second-hand servers I advertised a few > weeks ago have become available again. Would anyone like one or more? > > Please note that the collection point has now moved to WC2, collections > need to take place on weekdays during (or very soon after the end of) normal > office hours, and preference will be given to people able to take them away > ASAP because our current storage is time-limited. > > See below for all the details, and let me know if you're interested. > > Abi Broom > mySociety office manager > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Abi Broom <[email protected]> > Date: 24 August 2011 09:37 > Subject: Want a piece of mySociety? Our old servers need new homes > To: [email protected] > > > Hello all > > After several years of hosting, we've migrated out of Easynet's Brick Lane > Data Center, and now live on virtual machines hosted at a top secret > location in the north of England. Most of our old hardware is no longer in > use. It’s redundant. We don’t need it any more. But we don’t want to throw > it all in a skip, that would be terrible. > > Sooo... we’d like to find a lovely new home for it all. And this unique > opportunity to own a piece of mySociety may be of interest to YOU. Would you > like to take some hardware off our hands? > > If you feel guilty about relieving a registered charity of its assets, you > can even make us a donation <http://www.mysociety.org/donate/> (voluntary, > but we’d be appropriately grateful). > > The Rules: > > 1. The servers don’t come with disks: as part of our privacy procedures, > all disks have been removed and destroyed to protect our and our users’ > data. > > 2. You’ll need to be able to pick them up from a central London location > (N1) within the next 2-3 weeks. Note that they are large and heavy so you > may well need a car. > > 3. We probably won’t be able to do courier collection of any kind, sorry. > Strong preference for people who can actually turn up in person and take > machines away. > > Happy with that? OK then. The machines we have are: > > > https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?hl=en_GB&key=tYsSaBwOtzXKIVbS_umhlhw&authkey=CPbvlMwH&hl=en_GB#gid=0 > > Make your offer by email to [email protected]. The spreadsheet > will be updated as items are claimed, and strikethrough means it's already > gone. > > > Abi Broom > mySociety office manager > >
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