[Wikimediach-l] Do we use (american) cloud solutions at WMCH Q

2013-06-10 Diskussionsfäden Emmanuel Engelhart
Hi The last PRISM scandal show us again how the american governement and web companies don't care about our private data: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM_%28surveillance_program%29 On the other side, our members deserve a total privacy regarding their data. So, my question is pretty simple

Re: [Wikimediach-l] Do we use (american) cloud solutions at WMCH Q

2013-06-10 Diskussionsfäden Emmanuel Engelhart
Le 10/06/2013 14:41, Hartwig Thomas a écrit : I believe that such a precise list is an illusion. The servers as well as the legal bodies are in the US and thus are subject to US law. Therefore the operators of these servers will do anything the law requires them to do, just as an operator

Re: [Wikimediach-l] Do we use (american) cloud solutions at WMCH Q

2013-06-10 Diskussionsfäden Manuel Schneider
Hi Emmanuel, I can only speak about the processes within WMCH which are know to me or where I am part of. So far these processes mainly use self-hosted IT ressources. On our four server instances we run a variety of services: * mail (SMTP/IMAP) * webserver / content management systems / wikis *

Re: [Wikimediach-l] Do we use (american) cloud solutions at WMCH Q

2013-06-10 Diskussionsfäden Frédéric Schütz
On 10/06/13 19:31, Emmanuel Engelhart wrote: Thank you very much for this detailed answer. Congratulations for making WMCH infrastructure almost not depending of these type of problematic services (not the same in all chapters). Thanks to Manuel, we have a full set of services available