[tor-project] Hosting opportunity for open source projects

[Tom Ritter]

On 14 October 2017 at 17:52, Nima Fatemi <nima at torproject.org> wrote:
> Hey there,
>
> At GSoC the conversation about hardware needs of open source projects
> came up and someone mentioned "Open Source Lab"[1] has managed and
> unmanaged hosting services. I'm not sure if this has come up before in
> conversations before but judging from their 'hosting details'[2] page,
> I'm wondering if we can take advantage of their services to save some
> money off hosting or make the life of our students a bit easier.
>
> Just wanted to make sure that people know this exists as it seems to be
> a useful thing.

Oh, I just remembered another one of these I saw, although more
narrowly focused:

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In particular, the CNCF Community Infrastructure Lab (CIL) has free
access to state-of-the-art computing resources for open source
developers working to advance cloud native computing. They offer
access to both x86 and ARMv8 bare metal servers.  If you happen to
need some real computing power, and it relates to open source
software, this might be the free capability you’ve been looking for.
For example, it could be used for software builds, continuous
integration, scale testing, or demonstrations.  Dan’s of the opinion
that it’d be sad to see this free capability go unused, and I agree,
so please let them know if you need something like this.  More info
here:

  https://www.cncf.io/community/infrastructure-lab/

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The catch is "for open source developers working to advance cloud
native computing".  Not sure if we can make a compelling argument
there, but testing of test tor networks might be a good use case...

-tom