[Gnu-arch-users] Re: future of the wiki

[Talli Somekh]

Hi,

I'd be happy to host the site, and can do so pretty much indefinitely 
with plenty of bandwidth. also pretty consistent system administration. 
i can ask the sysadmin to set it up in a virtual linux config so that 
there is no worry about giving X people sudo or root access.

If everyone prefers the wiki in its current incarnation, that's cool.

I can also offer to build a full DB backed website as another 
alternative. It would be in the OpenACS architecture and look something 
like this: http://openacs.org or 
http://www.thedesignexperience.org:8089/openacs.org/

(not necessarily these designs or layouts, of course.)

this could involve a little graphic design to spruce the site up a bit 
and a content management system where there could be very liberal 
administrative and editorial permissions.

that's just a fourth alternative to consider.

that being said, i suppose the question is where does the community 
want to drive users? to the wiki or to the savannah page? what kind of 
information will the homepage/wiki contain in the future?

anyway, i'm happy to do whatever the community prefers.

talli

On Sunday, August 24, 2003, at 01:50  PM, Miles Egan wrote:

> Tom Lord wrote:
>
> > * alternate hosts
> >
> >  Each person in the to line has mentioned at least the possibility of
> >  hosting the Twiki-based wiki.
> >
> >  May I ask that, within the next couple of days, those people decide
> >  among themselves who (if anyone) will host it and pass that info
> >  along to mgrubb and to gnu-arch-users so that we can either effect
> >  the transfer or let mgrubb off the hook (a bit later than planned
> >  for).
> If I hosted this it would be on caddr.com.
>
> Pros:
> 1. Free bandwidth.
> 2. Reasonably fast server.
> 3. Complete control over apache / twiki / perl config.
>
> Cons:
> 1. System is informally backed up via rsync.
> 2. Provider is having firewall performance issues that will mean 
> sporadically slow access until
>    Sept. 7.
> 3. The server will probably be switched from FreeBSD to Linux sometime 
> in the next few months,
>    which will probably mean as much as a day of downtime.
> 4. If I switch jobs the server will probably have to come down.  I 
> don't see this happening anytime
>    soon, but, as you all know, no guarantees.
>
> miles