On Sat, May 30, 2015 at 11:08 AM, Franco Saliola <sali...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Friday, May 29, 2015 at 3:11:14 PM UTC-4, William wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I don't know anything about http://sage.lacim.uqam.ca/, but I'm >> starting to get emails directly to me asking for help about it >> vanishing. Of course, I'll refer people to this thread. > > > I'm sorry about that. It took us a while to get it sorted out, but the > server is back up and running now. (The person who set up and maintained the > server is no longer working for us.) > >> >> Thoughts: >> >> This is a very interesting example of how our past approach of >> encouraging a lot of people we don't know to run random Sage notebook >> servers all over has the potential to confuse users and significantly >> harm the reputation of Sage. I had never considered this before. > > > I did not realize until this incident how many people were using our server. > I thought it was mainly used by our students and a few collaborators. > >> >> If >> I had, I might have wanted to have a requirement like: >> >> - either (1) don't call it Sage, or (2) we provide a backup system >> that periodically rsync's a copy of your notebook's file to a central >> server, just in case. > > > What about making it so that worksheets can be easily saved to a github > project or to Dropbox (or similar service)? This way, a user can control > where the backups are saved.
That's a much better approach than what I suggested. The UI could make it *highly* recommended (with some sort of nag) that the user setup a link to Google Drive, Dropbox, or Github. William -- William (http://wstein.org) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-support" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-support+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
