3 months of free HP Cloud instance time for Ubuntu Developers

[Jussi Schultink]

I have forwarded this to the Kubuntu devel list.

Jussi

On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 6:19 PM, Jorge O. Castro <jorge at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> HP has graciously donated 3 months of instance time to Ubuntu
> Developers and Juju Charm Authors!
>
> This is a _beta_ program that I think will be useful to Ubuntu
> developers, especially those of you who need more hardware resources
> than the project can provide. Basically HP will give you a free three
> months on their HP Cloud that you can use for building Ubuntu. Test
> packages, fire up some Jenkins, do some automated QA, let them know
> what's broken, things of that sort. Ubuntu Flavors, I'd love to see
> participation from you as I know resources can be scarce.
>
> I've added the steps to apply here:
>
>    https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HPCloud
>
> The deadline for this first set of application is June 3rd (This
> Sunday!) I will then send all your information to HP so it can be
> credited to your account. Do note that you do need to enter a credit
> card to get the API keys you need to mail me to get you on the list,
> sorry about that. I will be updating that page over the next few
> days/weeks as we get more information on the process.
>
> We'd also like some help/testing the juju openstack provider on HP
> Cloud. Kees Cook has a sbuild charm
> (http://jujucharms.com/charms/precise/sbuild) that we can use, I'd
> _love_ to see ubuntu developers using the cloud for this sort of
> thing.
>
> Many thanks to HP for this significant contribution to Ubuntu, I hope
> to see some great blog posts/stories about how you all are using these
> resources. If you have questions feel free to contact me offlist or on
> #ubuntu-server on freenode.
>
> --
> Jorge Castro
> Canonical Ltd.
> http://cloud.ubuntu.com
>
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