[IMC-US-tech] moving forward:

[Joshua Breitbart]

I'm Josh from NYC (though in the midwest at the moment and at many other
moments). I'm not a programmer, but I'm familiar with Indymedia tech issues. I'm
an active member of the www-features list and I was at the Allied Media
Conference meeting.

I think dada's great, but I want to put two things out there for the discussion.
First, the Eggplant collective just installed Mir on one of their servers, so we
could consider that option. I know that almost no one in the US is familiar with
Mir, but perhaps this is a chance to learn. (The dada/Mir distinction is a
significant issue in the network, which is not to say that all IMCs should be
running the same software, only that the issue should be considered.) 

Second, I think we should consider whether we want to have the look and feel of
the indymedia.us site approximate as closely as possible the indymedia.org site,
so users of one feel comfortable with the other. I'm certainly not saying we
want to run classic active. Maybe we can alter the look of dada to achieve that
effect. Or maybe that's a reason to consider Mir, since I think at some point
the global site will transition to the Mir code. Then again, perhaps we want
users to transition seemlessly from our local sites.

Overriding these points is my complete faith in choices of the techies who will
be doing the work and my strong desire to launch the site soon.

jb




Quoting Ben Chodoroff <bc at sdf.lonestar.org>:

 I'm here too! I might've sent out my introduction too early.. it's
 archived though.
 
 Michigan's server is also capable of hosting. It's a commercial host,
 which means we have a lot of thoroughput available. It's ready to run
 more dada sites... It's also really really fast (multiple oc-3's).
 
 -ben
 
 * ski at indymedia.org (ski at indymedia.org) wrote:
 > Agreed on dada 100%
 > 
 > We have another hosting option available at CMU (dega.indymedia.org), but
 > that server is new and still getting the kinks worked out... We're looking
 > at a rough cap of about 1 GB/day, although we can spike much higher than
 > that. I'm not sure how this compares to the multiple DSL system you talk
 > about at UCIMC, but I'm guessing once the extra DSL lines are in the
 > bandwidth will be comparable enough that UCIMC will be the desired place
 > to host the site.
 > 
 > Hmm, so is it just me, max and sascha so far on this list? If not,
 > introduce yourselves, people!
 > 
 > Peace,
 > Brian Szymanski
 > ski at indymedia.org
 > bks10 at cornell.edu
 > 
 > 
 > > Hi all,
 > >
 > > Since our application is now nearing the end of the New-IMC process, I
 > > agree, we should get things started on the website design.  "Dada" is a
 > > good codebase to use (we use if for the UCIMC site and have had a lot of
 > > success).  We can probably use the UCIMC server (I will confirm with our
 > > tech group), though we may have initial bandwidth problems with our
 > > current setup (we currently have a single DSL line running into our
 server
 > > -- we've ordered two more DSL lines from different providers for
 > > redundancy, but these additional lines will take a month or so to be
 > > installed).  Nothing major (especially if we are not planning on going
 > > live within the next few weeks).
 > >
 > > What we need now are techies to help with implementation.  If you're
 > > interested (or know folks who would be), please have sign up on the
 > > IMC-US-Tech at ucimc.org e-mail list:
 > >
 > > http://lists.cu.groogroo.com/cgi-bin/listinfo/imc-us-tech
 > >
 > > I'll check in with our tech group and we can take it from there.
 > >
 > > --Sascha
 > >
 > > ***
 > >
 > > Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 12:22:43 -0400
 > > From: max <msussman at umich.edu>
 > > To: imc-us-tech at ucimc.org
 > > Subject: [IMC-US-tech] let's begin...
 > >
 > > are there any actual tech folks on this list who can get shit started?
 > > I think the two most pressing things are: 1) choose a codebase, 2)
 > > choose a server where the site will be hosted and get it going.  for #2
 > > I think the UC server makes the most sense.  and for #1 I vote for
 > > dada.  what do other people think?
 > >
 > > max
 > >
 > >
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