On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 6:06 AM, Chris Tyler <ch...@tylers.info> wrote: > > Karsten had talked about heading this up and doing something with > OSUOSL, but I haven't seen anything further on this for a while. > > There are three separate questions that need to be addressed: > 1. hosting - where is the TOS.o infrastructure going to be hosted? > 2. team - who's going to be involved, and in what ways? > 3. services - what is the TOS.o infrastructure going to provide? >
Yes, I offered for OSUOSL to host the TOS infrastructure a while back when we initially had these discussions. We've gone so far as to create a forum (phpbb) for Karsten to tinker with, and we're ready and waiting to do more, but the conversations within TOS to decide what was needed have never happened. OSUOSL has all the resources in place to provide quality system admin, support, and expert advice around hosting. My pitch to TOS in our previous discussion was to let OSUOSL handle all of the lower-level sys admin and maintenance to take a load off of the TOS members who may have to do those things otherwise. TOS can then concentrate on other important things, and perhaps thinking about a "POSSE in a box" where we could spin up a virtual machine pre-configured with certain software that would meet the needs Mel is describing, leave it running for the extent of the event, and then archive things as desired and shut it down. (just thinking out loud here) So, I remain willing and able to host the community at the OSL, but we still need to have these internal discussions to figure out what the TOS infrastructure will look like, what the current services are, and how that will change/grow moving forward. I'm welcome to have these discussions anytime, and will gladly bring in our lead sys admin and whoever else so that we can move things forward with TOS. -Jeff _______________________________________________ tos mailing list tos@teachingopensource.org http://teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos
