Hi-ho, On Mon, 2007-12-24 at 10:55 +1300, Jim Cheetham wrote: > The major limiting factor on an offer like this is literally "how long > will you be with the same company"? > If you can make it an official grant of resources from the company to > the CLUG community, that would be very good, and one less worry for
The grant of resources would be made as 'official'. We as a business are reasonable users of FOSS, with 13 servers including our core business system linux based. The current CEO is IT savy, so understands the concepts and shouldn't have an issue with us (The royal) 'giving back' to the community in this way. > > Someone else would have to admin it once it's running though. Resources > > I've got lots of, it's time I'm short of! > > Just getting the thing set up and importing data will take some time, > which shouldn't be underestimated :-) The full database dump is freely Ay, we moved out internal IT documentation wiki from phpwiki to wikimedia earlier in the year. I messed around with some scripts linked from the list for a while, and wrote some code of my own.. The end result was that I delegated the copy'n'paste to my staff, and have kept the old wiki online in case we needed anything that got missed. > the license before putting anything online at all (I've recently > switched to the NZ CC By-SA license), as well as anti-spam measures > (there's not much work needed to keep track of changes by real people, > but there are occasional link-spam robots running past). My head hurts... :-). My offer is purely for the provision of a free (as in beer) virtual server in our well-appointed computer room. I'll put it online, include it in the backup and DR schedule, and keep the OS patched & up to date. I already work 60+ hours a week, someone else can fight for the job of converting the Wiki if 'the clug' decides this is a good idea! :-) Steve? You got nothing to do for a few hours? :-) Cheers, Chris H.
