[ahimsa-tech] [IMC-Video] video.indy move to berkman

[ben at riseup.net]

this suggestion might not go down very well but...

why not mothball video.indymedia.org, archive all content on archive.org
(I'm sure they'd have us), then create links to all that content on a new
video.indymedia.org static page parked on berkman.

the result I think would be to prioritise the relocation of the IMC's etc
that need moving and to give new impitus to video people to sort out a new
long term solution to video provision on indymedia.

there are many people working on new solutions on video right now
utilising off the shelf open source cms's and video moduals that will have
a bigger developer base and a more sustainable future. many of these video
people and coders have moved on from indymedia (like jebba apparently)
frustration with  process and the speed of development possible.

it might be possible to look at this server crisis in a permaculture way
and turn the problem into a solution.

video.indymedia.org needs new energy and this might provide the push
needed to make it happen and build a new strong diverse group of people
around making it happen.

Ben

> Hi,
>
> berkman seems to be the only option a the moment to host
> video.indymedia.org - the move will take a moment since i need to
> figure out if things like pam_mysql, vsftpd and rtorrent work under bsd.
>
> i also will disable the direct http download, finish the archive.org
> auto-upload script and move over to use bit torrent  only.
>
> to make a clean transfer it can be that i have to disable publishing
> for some days. there is already a old backup of the video.indy files
> on berkman, but there is a good amount of files to transfer.
>
> this is basically the setup video.indy was proposed years ago (using
> archive.org as the main download source) but we never finished the
> setup since jebba provided such a nice box :-)
>
> anyway, it is good to decentralize
>
> occam
>
> p.s. you can understand this mail as a proposal, if you can offer or
> see any other option, please tell us. It's around 50G disk-space, it
> will need more. The Site also had enough Traffic to fill up a 100Mbit
> Line with one well-known Video.
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