Back in April of this year, the cwelug started hosting a BitTorrent tracker:
http://lists.firepipe.net/pipermail/cwe-lug/2004-April/001321.html
The purpose of the tracker was to distribute FLOSS more easily:
http://www.cwelug.org/cgi-bin/wiki.cgi?DistributingFLOSS
To that end, the BT tracker has been enormously successful with over 500 GB of FLOSS distributed since the tracker came on-line:
http://cwelug.org:6969/
In addition, Contegix ( http://www.contegix.com ) has helped by allowing the CWELUG to colocate a BT client machine. This machine alone has transfered an additional 368 GB of FLOSS bits. Combining the two numbers results in over 860 GB of FLOSS being distributed. That is equivalent to over 1240 CDs of FLOSS; far more than any amount we could ever have hoped to distribute at all the CWELUG meetings.
If you wish to help out in the new year, please visit the downloads page below for instructions. BT clients exist for Linux, Windows, and MacOS/X.
Thanks go to all who helped make this happen and happy holidays to all.
Regards, - Robert http://www.cwelug.org/downloads Help others get OpenSource. Distribute FLOSS for Windows, Linux, *BSD, and MacOS X with BitTorrent
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