Hi folks, I'm setting up a non-profit community web hosting organisation in Merri-bek (the inner northern suburbs of Melbourne). The intent is to setup a few local sever racks, ideally powered by renewables, at a couple of different community facilities, and to provide hosting of common open source software for local organisations (who might need wikis, groupware, CMSs, etc) and individuals (who might need email, mastadon, pixelfed, etc).
As part of this, I'm also looking to skill up local volunteers and give them agency to work one projects to setup new types of hosting. I'm look for volunteer help two areas: 1. Mentors. I have five of us already, but I'd love a few more experienced technologists to be in our mentoring group, able to answer questions from our volunteers in a way that helps them build problem solving skills (so, always doing it for them, but pointing them in the right direction). These mentors don't need to live in Merri-bek. 2. Volunteers for the first project sprint. Each volunteer sprint is a three month cohort, with a showcase at the end. While I want this to be accessible to people new to tech, at this stage I'd also accept more experienced folks with a passion to setup some important OSS service for the inner north. So far I only have Dokuwiki and Matrix running, so if you want to see your favourite project hosted, drop me a line. Ideally most of these folks should live, work or otherwise have a solid connection to Merri-bek. More details over at https://www.merri-bek.tech/ Details about me at https://jade.hopepunk.me/ and https://www.linkedin.com/in/craigambrose/ (excuse the two names) regards, Jade
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