Sourceware Open Office, virtual machines, virtual communities, Fri 16:00 UTC

[Mark Wielaard]

Second Friday of the month, second Sourceware Open Office of 2026!

Friday Feb 13, from 16:00 to 17:00 UTC
At #overseers on irc.libera.chat

$ date -d "Fri Feb 13 16:00 UTC 2026"

More hardware, going full VM-only, moving our security isolation
and automating, testing and actions stories forward.

   This month server2 and server3 joined the (new) server1 in the new
   RH datacenter. And both are now also setup to only run services in
   separate VMs. This completes our bare-metal to VM-only transition.
   
   Also new disks have been delivered to OSUOSL for sourceware-builder3
   (2x28 core, 112 thread, 768GB RAM, 2TB SSDs) adding VMs and
   containers for buildbot builders and forgejo action runners, which
   should come online any day now.
   
Come and discuss the next steps. Putting more services into their own
dedicated VMs, deciding on how we are going to use the new build server
(in a way that provides Freedom to all). Also the Sourceware PLC is
working on a budget for more paid staff/contractors, what should our
priorities be? See the Plans under Sourceware infrastructure security:
https://sourceware.org/sourceware-security-vision.html

   Speaking of data center moves, the OSUOSL one is in full swing now and
   they have an update and a fundraising event:
   https://osuosl.org/blog/data-center-migration-update-fundraising/
   Please donate if you can, or ask your company to support OSUOSL, this
   will not only help Sourceware but also the GCC Compile Farm and many,
   many, many other Free Software projects:
   https://www.beavsgive.org/organizations/open-source-lab

Sourceware relies on cooperation among a broad diversity of core
toolchain and developer tool projects, hackers, organizations,
ideas, and communication styles. The monthly Sourceware Open Office
meetings are one way of coming together as a community and discuss
our shared development infrastructure. For other ways to participate
see https://sourceware.org/mission.html#organization

Keep Sourceware worry-free, friendly and independent by donating
https://sourceware.org/donate.html support our fiscal sponser SFC
https://sfconservancy.org/sustainer and/or support OSUOSL for
hosting Free Software projects https://osuosl.org/donate/

Do you or your company want to sponsor Sourceware plans financially
https://sourceware.org/sourceware-security-vision.html#plans
donate hardware or services then contact us at sponsor@sourceware.org