[Imc-summaries] IMC-Tech Summary September 27th 2001

[evan@protest.net]

SUMMARY
	Alternate Indymedia Servers
	FTP/SSH Access Updates
	IMC-Nigeria Needs Computers
	Indymedia Artwork & Logos
	Useful Active Daemons & Scripts
	Search is still broken
	Ideas for balancing load and dns
	Money from IMC-DE for Euro-Server
	Squid Donations Page
	Mir Update
	Patch for Summary_list.inc RSS


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Alternate Indymedia Servers
	New Jersey, Twin Cities, Maine, Buffalo and others want to
	know about hosting other cities on their server. SF and LA
	are already hosting other cities. There is a European
	server being setup. But despite all this great work,
	several of the imc's do need help getting active setup and
	having their servers so they can manage multiple sites.
	IMC-Tech could use some more sysadmin's to step forward
	and help these new servers get setup and working.
	http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/public/imc-tech/2001-September/005403.html


FTP/SSH Access Updates
	If you use ftp on stallman then you NEED to read this email.
	It pertains to the usage policy regarding ssh and ftp, and
	how to make sure that we can maintain some level of security.
	http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/public/imc-tech/2001-September/005364.html


IMC-Nigeria Needs Computers
	The Nigeria IMC is getting off the ground. They have
	some serious need for computers. Among the 7 founding
	organizations they have access to two 486 computers.
	Donate computers to them! They also need training help.
	http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/public/imc-tech/2001-September/005391.html


Indymedia Artwork & Logos
	The SF imc has copies of the IMC logo and tons of other
	indymedia graphical propaganda for you to use. Belgium
	IMC also has cool fliers and propaganda but they don't
	have it online yet.
	http://sf.indymedia.org/pdf/


Useful Active Daemons & Scripts
	Andy wrote up a nice little summary of the active daemons that
	make life as a sysadmin of server hosting active sites easier.
	He includes a plea for somebody to help clean up the scripts
	and update template so new imc's get a good set of defaults.

http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/public/imc-tech/2001-September/005425.html


Search is still broken
        What can we say, nobody's fixed it. If techie's been waiting
	for something to do, this is a task that needs to be taken on.


Ideas for balancing load and dns
        Bob from the twin cities has an idea for balancing load.
	Nobody responded him to but we do need to address these issues.
	http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/public/imc-tech/2001-September/005389.html


Money from IMC-DE for Euro-Server
        The german IMC has allocated 200 (euros/dollars) for to help
	fund the european indymedia server.
	http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/public/imc-europa-tech/2001-September/000077.html


New Squid Error Message & Donations Page
        I updated the squid error messages so the make more sense
	to non-technical types. I also setup a little techdonate.indy
	site and a pay pal account. I'm not sure if we want to use it
	but it was easy to setup. Basically when the error comes
	up because sacco is overloaded we provide people the ability
	to donate money. We should discuss this at an upcoming imc-tech
	meeting.
	http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/public/imc-tech/2001-September/005429.html


Mir Update
        Mir is the german indymedia code based on java. There was
	another mir irc meeting on the 27th. Mir has been installed
	on the dutch imc server. You can see more updates on the
	mir code at: http://mir.indymedia.de


Patch of Summary_list.inc for RSS
        Jean-Baptiste from imc-france has provided a patch for
	summaries_list.inc so it generates correct links in the
	newswire.rss file.
	http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/public/imc-tech/2001-September/005400.html


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indymedia community of our activities. This will help
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