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

[Fred Benenson]

As a SFC old timer, let me just add my praise to Asheesh's and his
dedication to this organization. There would be a lot less to say about SFC
it weren't for his effort over the years.

So,  Thanks!

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On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 3:14 AM, Alex Kozak <akozak at creativecommons.org>wrote:

> Thanks for your years of support Asheesh, and thanks to the webteam as
> well. The SFC web presence is the pillar of the org and FC generally.
>
> You definitely deserve one of these (hell you've probably earned them all
> by now):
> http://www.nerdmeritbadges.com/products/06-full-stack-web-developer
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 11:46 PM, Adi Kamdar <adikamdar at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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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>>>
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