2011/2/11 Ian Weller <i...@ianweller.org>: > As Karsten said in his earlier email (thanks!), there is indeed a desire > within the TOS community to run the infrastructure ourselves, modeling
Who wants to run the infrastructre? Personally, I think OSU has a great infrastructure, and we probably have more to gain by having their team run things than, say, people volunteering their time. I certainly can't commit to helping admin a machine (staying on top of patches, etc.). > On the other hand, I think it would be important to utilize *some* of > OSUOSL's services -- MySQL comes to mind from the IRC log I posted > earlier this week. Do we have the depth/bandwidth in the community to do better than OSUOSL? If not, we shouldn't. (I was prepared to suggest DreamHost or similar, because it makes doing things like provisioning a new wiki *easy*, like "button press easy.") > We already have plenty of people who want to volunteer -- ctyler How many are "plenty," and when you say "volunteer," what are they willing to do, and in what timeframe? Do we have 3 people who are already committed/over-committed elsewhere? Or, do we have 15 people who are lightly loaded, and have good experience in this space? How much lead will we need to ask for (say): * A Subversion instance, with * 20 users, and * associated Trac, and * Integration with some kind of blogging platform, plus * other tasty treats, like mailing lists, databases, and the like. That is what (it seems like) OSUOSL offers, and I'm concerned we're going to reinvent a wheel to achieve less. > mentioned this in IRC last night. Short of any other discussion/debate > on this topic, I think the next thing to do is to go forth with the I guess this is concern/debate... Cheers, M _______________________________________________ tos mailing list tos@teachingopensource.org http://teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos
