Fund a TALOS Secure Workstation as coreboot build system

[Paul Menzel]

Dear coreboot folks,

At the last coreboot community meeting (CCC) [1][2] the TALOS Secure
Workstation was brought up, and most people said, they won’t be able to
afford the base system.

Martin said it’d be great to have one system as a coreboot build
system, and suggested that the coreboot community together funds a
workstation.

What do you think?

Thanks,

Paul

PS: Please spread the word of the crowdfunding to your friends, and
coworkers, and support it, so that it’ll be a success.

[1] https://www.raptorengineering.com/TALOS/prerelease.php
[2] https://www.crowdsupply.com/raptor-computing-systems/talos-secure-workstatio...

[Merlin Büge]

> PS: Please spread the word of the crowdfunding to your friends, and
> coworkers, and support it, so that it’ll be a success.

Guys, if we really try to spread the word about it, we can reach very much!
It would be a great milestone for open source computing hardware.
Just pull yourself together - together we can make this happen!

Regards,

mearon

[Martin Roth]

Is getting a Talos workstation as a build server something that people are
interested in contributing money for?

So far, we've got $2500 pledged from two contributors out of the $7500
needed to get a server.

Please email me privately with your contributions, unless you really want
to make it public and reply to this thread.  I'll send updates with totals
every few days, or as they come in.  My plan is to post the names of the
contributors (unless you wish to remain anonymous), but I don't plan to
post any amounts being contributed.

I'm not actually taking any money right now.  If we reach our goal, I'll
contact people with information on how to make the contributions.

Thanks.
Martin

On Sun, Oct 30, 2016 at 8:25 AM, Merlin Büge  wrote:
> > PS: Please spread the word of the crowdfunding to your friends, and
> > coworkers, and support it, so that it’ll be a success.
>
> Guys, if we really try to spread the word about it, we can reach very much!
> It would be a great milestone for open source computing hardware.
> Just pull yourself together - together we can make this happen!
>
> Regards,
>
> mearon