Bravo, web team. Bravo! -Adi
On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 2:29 AM, Asheesh Laroia <[email protected]>wrote: > Hey all lovely freeculture.org people, > > I've been pretty quiet on the lists lately, but I've still been active > behind the scenes a little bit making sure nothing goes too terribly wrong > with freeculture.org's Internet presence. Most notably, when > freeculture.org had our last online catastrophe in late 2006 (suffering > pretty massive data loss due to our host's hard disks dying and us having no > backups), I decided I'd take a more direct role in maintaining > freeculture.org. Since early 2007, freeculture.org and its services have > run on a virtual machine on my personal server. > > That's been going decently well. There have been a few hiccups, like one > that took place last weekend. The outage lasted from Saturday 9 AM > US/Eastern and ended about Monday 8 PM. We updated the freeculture.orgstatus > blog <> > http://fcostatus.wordpress.com/> as we had updates. Parker and I put a > temporary conference website up during the outage. > > I've been very busy lately and haven't been putting a lot of time into > freeculture.org. When the outage happened, I was particularly disheartened > to see my nightly backup job that backs up all freeculture.org data had > stopped on May 3, 2009. (That happens co-incides with me moving out of San > Francisco.) > > I've started that up again, and it's taking a snapshot now, so in case > there's another emergency on my personal machine we can move the services > somewhere else pretty quickly. > > The years last couple of years have seen stability and progress for > freeculture.org tech. That's because of a lot of people who are not me. I > want to give massive thanks to Parker Phinney, who has taken over a lot of > day-to-day work on the web team. Tony Biondo deserves a huge thanks too for > his contributions, especially setting up new chapters with web space. Joichi > Ito deserves a hug for letting us have the rack space in Tokyo (where my > machine is physically located), and Yukitake Kuriyama ("Kuri-san") deserves > a round of applause for administering the network and helping us out with > reboots in emergencies. I'm blessed to know such great people. Oh, and > thanks to Greg Grossmeier for calling me Saturday "morning" to notify me out > of the outage. > > If you're interested in finding out how you can help, send an introduction > email to the webteam list -- http://lists.freeculture.org/webteam . > > Email at freeculture.org has just come back online as of a few hours ago, > which explains the long delay in Ben's post about how you can be funded to > attend the conference in DC. I'm planing to be there, so hopefully I'll see > many of you there! > > My own record of web team leadership has had its ups and downs, so I want > to take a moment to apologize to everyone whose awesome projects have been > slowed down by my unresponsiveness. It's been fun being involved with > freeculture.org -- some of you remember me from conference calls in > 2004-2005, and maybe there's a person or two still on the list who remembers > OPG v. Diebold. I stick around because it's heartening to know the various > Students for Free Culture are still active, and to see our illustrious > alumni go on to do great things. I wish I were more active, and one day I > may need to retire. > > But until then, I'm your Chief Web Wrangler. > > -- Asheesh. > > -- > See, these two penguins walked into a bar, which was really stupid, 'cause > the second one should have seen it. > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss >
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