[FC-discuss] [meta] freeculture.org online, lately

[Adi Kamdar]

Bravo, web team. Bravo!
-Adi


On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 2:29 AM, Asheesh Laroia <freeculture at asheesh.org>wrote:

> Hey all lovely freeculture.org people,
>
> I've been pretty quiet on the lists lately, but I've still been active
> behind the scenes a little bit making sure nothing goes too terribly wrong
> with freeculture.org's Internet presence. Most notably, when
> freeculture.org had our last online catastrophe in late 2006 (suffering
> pretty massive data loss due to our host's hard disks dying and us having no
> backups), I decided I'd take a more direct role in maintaining
> freeculture.org. Since early 2007, freeculture.org and its services have
> run on a virtual machine on my personal server.
>
> That's been going decently well. There have been a few hiccups, like one
> that took place last weekend. The outage lasted from Saturday 9 AM
> US/Eastern and ended about Monday 8 PM. We updated the freeculture.orgstatus blog <>
> http://fcostatus.wordpress.com/> as we had updates.  Parker and I put a
> temporary conference website up during the outage.
>
> I've been very busy lately and haven't been putting a lot of time into
> freeculture.org. When the outage happened, I was particularly disheartened
> to see my nightly backup job that backs up all freeculture.org data had
> stopped on May 3, 2009. (That happens co-incides with me moving out of San
> Francisco.)
>
> I've started that up again, and it's taking a snapshot now, so in case
> there's another emergency on my personal machine we can move the services
> somewhere else pretty quickly.
>
> The years last couple of years have seen stability and progress for
> freeculture.org tech. That's because of a lot of people who are not me. I
> want to give massive thanks to Parker Phinney, who has taken over a lot of
> day-to-day work on the web team. Tony Biondo deserves a huge thanks too for
> his contributions, especially setting up new chapters with web space. Joichi
> Ito deserves a hug for letting us have the rack space in Tokyo (where my
> machine is physically located), and Yukitake Kuriyama ("Kuri-san") deserves
> a round of applause for administering the network and helping us out with
> reboots in emergencies. I'm blessed to know such great people. Oh, and
> thanks to Greg Grossmeier for calling me Saturday "morning" to notify me out
> of the outage.
>
> If you're interested in finding out how you can help, send an introduction
> email to the webteam list -- http://lists.freeculture.org/webteam .
>
> Email at freeculture.org has just come back online as of a few hours ago,
> which explains the long delay in Ben's post about how you can be funded to
> attend the conference in DC. I'm planing to be there, so hopefully I'll see
> many of you there!
>
> My own record of web team leadership has had its ups and downs, so I want
> to take a moment to apologize to everyone whose awesome projects have been
> slowed down by my unresponsiveness. It's been fun being involved with
> freeculture.org -- some of you remember me from conference calls in
> 2004-2005, and maybe there's a person or two still on the list who remembers
> OPG v. Diebold. I stick around because it's heartening to know the various
> Students for Free Culture are still active, and to see our illustrious
> alumni go on to do great things. I wish I were more active, and one day I
> may need to retire.
>
> But until then, I'm your Chief Web Wrangler.
>
> -- Asheesh.
>
> --
> See, these two penguins walked into a bar, which was really stupid, 'cause
> the second one should have seen it.
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