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Hi,<br>
<br>
At the last general membership meeting of the Makerspace, we
discussed the proposal that Acorn Active Media<br>
turn over administration of Chambana,net to the IMC proper and that
the default locus of sysadmin talent<br>
at the IMC currently lands in the Makerspace. (
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The primary volunteer administrators of AAM are no longer local.)<br>
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[Imc-makerspace] July Membership Meeting [July 27 Minutes]<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://lists.chambana.net/pipermail/imc-makerspace/2014-July/001664.html">https://lists.chambana.net/pipermail/imc-makerspace/2014-July/001664.html</a><br>
<br>
So, Emily Knox has posted a survey to Google Docs to gauge people's
interest and talent for building a pool<br>
of volunteers to start maintaining, building and growing
Chambana.net:<br>
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href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1IvA28OFzZfL62FqMq0DLJNknxv-n0v3vNRkOl5cPgPo/viewform">https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1IvA28OFzZfL62FqMq0DLJNknxv-n0v3vNRkOl5cPgPo/viewform</a><br>
<br>
The AAM folks are still available to provide assistance with any
problems we might encounter. Some of them<br>
even come back to town to visit occasionally.<br>
<br>
Here is my set of reasons for keeping Chambana.net local:<br>
<br>
The UC-IMC is an anchor institution of UC2B:<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://uc2b.net/about/community-anchor-institutions/">http://uc2b.net/about/community-anchor-institutions/</a><br>
Content served from the IMC is connected at 1 Gigabit-per-second
locally to the Champaign-Urbana city limits<br>
on the UC2B fiber loop.<br>
Keep Chambana.net independent of centrally-owned, monolithic media
outlets! This is like a central tenet of<br>
the IMC.<br>
Anonymity of decentralization keeps Chambana.net off the NSA's
radar. (Security through obscurity.)<br>
<br>
Thanks,<br>
<br>
-Stewart, <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://tech-knowledge.tumblr.com">http://tech-knowledge.tumblr.com</a><br>
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