[Imc-tech] helping the Indymedia Network:

[Zachary C. Miller]

I don't think there's much of a labor issue with supporting some more
lists IF we get the T1. I expect to be upgrading the groogroo server
sometime in the next year. The labor is basically the same IF they
have people dedicated to being the listadmins and IF there is a clear
policy about archives (the only annoying thing I have to deal with on
our lists now is when people demand that their contact info be purged
from our archives).

As far as getting a T1 goes...as discussed in the past...we need to
get a building first before we invest a lot of time and energy and
money into setting up the line, transitioning off of our existing DSL,
etc.

Perhaps the meeting tech needs to have is a long term infrastructure
vision meeting. I've been meaning to call such a meeting for a
while. Maybe now is the time. A meeting to map out what we would like
to do with our network infrastructure over the next few years and how
we will do it (labor- and money- and space-wise).

Paul Bengt Riismandel wrote:
> I think it would be best for tech to meet first, to really assess what the resources are -- it seems that labor is the real issue, even if a lot of global folks will do the day-to-day stuff.
> 
> --Paul
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sascha Meinrath [mailto:sascha at ucimc.org]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2003 2:00 PM
> To: Paul Bengt Riismandel
> Cc: imc-tech at ucimc.org
> Subject: RE: [Imc-tech] helping the Indymedia Network:
> 
> 
> I doubt anything would be done very quickly -- I think this would be a
> longer term plan; but would someone like to e-mail the global imc-tech
> team and at least make the offer?  I think we should definitely make the
> offer and put ourselves on their radar.
> 
> Any volunteers?
> 
> --Sascha
> 
> On Wed, 2 Apr 2003, Paul Bengt Riismandel wrote:
> 
> > I agree that we'd need more bandwidth to handle the lists at least, plus maybe hardware?  I'm not sure we'd want to load down groogroo much more.
> >
> > The best possible scenario is a T1 at the IMC. I'm not sure what kind of machine could host lists, but we could probably get by with a PIII or Athlon 1000 class box to start.
> >
> > --Paul
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Sascha Meinrath [mailto:sascha at ucimc.org]
> > Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2003 9:19 AM
> > Cc: imc-tech at ucimc.org
> > Subject: Re: [Imc-tech] helping the Indymedia Network:
> >
> >
> > On Wed, 2 Apr 2003, Zachary C. Miller wrote:
> >
> > > We'd need a better net connection.
> >
> > Maybe we could offer to host if the Network paid for the connection?  This
> > would make _a lot_ of things possible, and would benefit both th Global
> > Network and the UCIMC.
> >
> > --Sascha
> >
> > > Sascha Meinrath wrote:
> > > > Hi all,
> > > >
> > > > Is there any interest in offering to help host some of the Global
> > > > Indymedia Network's "stuff" here locally?  It sounds like our tech group
> > > > is probably one of the more advanced around and doing so would give it a
> > > > "reason to be"...
> > > >
> > > > Anyone interested?
> > > >
> > > > --Sascha
> 
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