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.<br><br>So, Thanks!<br><br>F<br>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 3:14 AM, Alex Kozak <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:akozak@creativecommons.org">akozak@creativecommons.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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.<br><br>You definitely deserve one of these (hell you've probably earned them all by now): <a href="http://www.nerdmeritbadges.com/products/06-full-stack-web-developer" target="_blank">http://www.nerdmeritbadges.com/products/06-full-stack-web-developer</a><div>
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<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 11:46 PM, Adi Kamdar <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:adikamdar@gmail.com" target="_blank">adikamdar@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Bravo, web team. Bravo!<br clear="all"><font color="#888888">-Adi</font><div><div></div><div><br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 2:29 AM, Asheesh Laroia <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:freeculture@asheesh.org" target="_blank">freeculture@asheesh.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hey all lovely <a href="http://freeculture.org" target="_blank">freeculture.org</a> people,<br>
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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 <a href="http://freeculture.org" target="_blank">freeculture.org</a>'s Internet presence. Most notably, when <a href="http://freeculture.org" target="_blank">freeculture.org</a> 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 <a href="http://freeculture.org" target="_blank">freeculture.org</a>. Since early 2007, <a href="http://freeculture.org" target="_blank">freeculture.org</a> and its services have run on a virtual machine on my personal server.<br>
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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 <a href="http://freeculture.org" target="_blank">freeculture.org</a> status blog <><a href="http://fcostatus.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">http://fcostatus.wordpress.com/</a>> as we had updates. Parker and I put a temporary conference website up during the outage.<br>
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I've been very busy lately and haven't been putting a lot of time into <a href="http://freeculture.org" target="_blank">freeculture.org</a>. When the outage happened, I was particularly disheartened to see my nightly backup job that backs up all <a href="http://freeculture.org" target="_blank">freeculture.org</a> data had stopped on May 3, 2009. (That happens co-incides with me moving out of San Francisco.)<br>
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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.<br>
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The years last couple of years have seen stability and progress for <a href="http://freeculture.org" target="_blank">freeculture.org</a> 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.<br>
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If you're interested in finding out how you can help, send an introduction email to the webteam list -- <a href="http://lists.freeculture.org/webteam" target="_blank">http://lists.freeculture.org/webteam</a> .<br>
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Email at <a href="http://freeculture.org" target="_blank">freeculture.org</a> 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!<br>
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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 <a href="http://freeculture.org" target="_blank">freeculture.org</a> -- 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.<br>
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But until then, I'm your Chief Web Wrangler.<br>
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-- Asheesh.<br><font color="#888888">
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-- <br>
See, these two penguins walked into a bar, which was really stupid, 'cause<br>
the second one should have seen it.<br>
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