[IMC-US-Tech] Re: [IMC-US] Launch Logistics Meeting: Wednesday 9pm EST

[deva]

Mir right out of the box (so to speak) is vulnerable to the sort of 
attacks that have been happening to Dada sites, however, there are some 
fixes in place which should have propagated to all mir sites at this 
point. Dealing more fully with this issue, and especially getting some 
mirrors in place are two important topics for the irc meeting tonight

Locations to host mirror machines are important. It is my thought that 
these sites should be located in different places around the country. 
Please bring suggestions to the meeting.

see ya'll tonight at 6pm pacific (9pm eastern)
deva


On Oct 26, 2004, at 6:51 AM, Sascha Meinrath wrote:

> like d.o. mentioned -- 9pm EST on channel #us on irc.indymedia.org 
> we'll be tying up all the loose ends for a Thursday (hard) launch of 
> indymedia.us.  everyone who can make it should come.
>
>> B) Democracy Now might do a headline on it the day imc-us 
>> "officially" launches. Wednesday is it?
>
> this would be _great_ -- we'll lauch on Thursday, so a Thursday DN 
> headline would be awesome.
>
>> C) maybe I missed conversations about this, but if a reporter wants 
>> to do a story on this and actually use a quote from someone, is that 
>> taboo or not? If not, are we telling them to email the list and then 
>> we will discuss what we want to say and email them back or can we 
>> designate someone to respond right away and leave it at that? I 
>> personally don¹t want a collective deluge of emails from this list in 
>> my inbox about what to say to each reporter who asks a question. 
>> Nothing personal, but ill just get lost again. If that is the current 
>> plan, can there at least be a working group with a different email 
>> address that can discuss that stuff? There might not be a ton of 
>> questions but we should prepare nonetheless.
>
> i agree -- we definitely need press contacts, several folks (myself 
> included) have agreed to help with press -- let's get this finalized 
> on Wednesday.  we need to have folks who can respond quickly to 
> reporters to get the story out.
>
>> D) Also, can we ask listwork to set up an alias imc-us at indymedia.org 
>> instead of using imc-us at ucimc.org or IMC-US at lists.cu.groogroo.com I 
>> can put in that request right away if no one objects.
>
> this is a great idea -- ana, could you do this?
>
>> E) I know mir probably does not suffer from the kinds of security 
>> holes we are seeing in dada right now, but are we prepared for 
>> intense hacking attempts the second we fully publicize the site? Does 
>> anyone know anyone who has tried to find exploits in mir?
>
> i'll let the imc-security team know that we're going live on thursday 
> and that we could use any help they can spare.  we should also spread 
> the word that folks should hang out on #us so that we can coordinate 
> -- this will be especially important during our first week.  we also 
> still need mirrors of our site since we have limited bandwidth at our 
> current server location.
>
>> F) don¹t underestimate first impressions....is there anyway to 
>> standardize the window size the site opens in or is that something we 
>> don¹t want to do? The banner (and hence the site) looks off if the 
>> window doesn¹t happen to open at its exact width.
>
> i hadn't noticed this; but yes, it would be good if we could 
> transition from the edge of the rotating banner to black instead of 
> just having an abrupt line.
>
>> G) lastly, a "home" button might help with navigation from certain 
>> pages... like support.
>
> anyone have a minute to make this change?
>
> in solidarity,
>
> --sascha
>
> -- 
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