[Jtsummers]

They've been donated, you don't seem to have much choice or you wouldn't be relying on donated hardware.

You could solicit money or other hardware donations.

Perhaps find out the system specs and purchase additional RAM and SSDs to eke out the best performance (IME, the issue with hardware like that can often be brought to a more than reasonable level by just addressing those two elements).

Set up a server for the heavier weight stuff like dealing with Docker and server instances.

If the alternative is they have no way to participate, you don't really have many other options.

[hnthrow12345]

Thanks for the suggestions!