Ask Bjørn Hansen wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > I'm planning to buy a small stack of Soekris 4801 systems to > eventually get the distributed monitoring (with IPv6 support!) that > we've talked about occasionally. > > My thought was that I'd buy them, load an embedded FreeBSD system with > the monitoring setup (ntpd, jabber client, bunch of perl scripts etc > etc) and ship them around the world to friendly places promising to > provide connectivity and a few watts of power for them. > > While the time I'm putting into the project really is worth more, I'd > rather not spend $2000 on the systems, compact flash cards and > shipping all on my own. :-) > > So I was wondering if the community thinks it'd be inappropriate to > put up a link on the www.pool.ntp.org soliciting contributions for this? > > For businesses I can give receipts for the contribution. If you are > in the US and need it tax deducted otherwise then I can't do that, but > ntp.isc.org has a donation page and ISC is a non-profit.
Why not just ship the software (disk image?)? I'm sure there are many with spare hardware who could run it .... John _______________________________________________ timekeepers mailing list [email protected] https://fortytwo.ch/mailman/cgi-bin/listinfo/timekeepers
