On Sun, 2010-08-08 at 21:19 -0400, Ken Tossell wrote: > The lounge site has been down a lot ever since the storage > requirements got huge: >2 GB for the once-tiny database due to > spammers. Whenever the server (data center) loses power, which has > happened a lot lately, someone needs to scrape together disk space so > that Zope/Plone will start up. Even freeing space isn't working now, > and I neither know how to fix it nor care to spend much time finding > out. Is anyone interested in bringing lounge.cs back or > making/maintaining a simple webpage for UMLUG? We can always redirect > to a static page.
I will take a look. I think maintaining lounge.cs is more trouble than it is worth, so I would be inclined to extract the useful data and put it on the static site. Could you give me some hints to get started? > Things UMLUG does: 1) mailing list 2) http://mirror.umoss.org/ 3) > basic web/DNS hosting for a small number of student groups. I think > the last in-person meeting was about a year and a half ago. > > We haven't made any attempt at selecting officers for the coming > school year. If anyone is interested in bringing UMLUG back, post here > or e-mail um...@umoss.org! I think we've naturally gravitated toward supporting the set of services that is worthwhile for us, i.e., the mailing list. But we should have a minimally working web site so people can find out what UMLUG is. -- Matt
