[axxs-sysadmin] axxs PROPOSAL: 'temporary' imc japan @borg + kaz as superuser

[musicman]

+1, konichiwa kaz. I have some japanese language skills, but they are rusty.

cheers
L.

On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 1:27 PM, boud <boud at riseup.net> wrote:
> hi axxs-sysadmin,
>
>  The G8 in Toya Lake (July, see links at top-right of
>  www.indymedia.org) is coming up very soon and the IMC Japan Tech group
>  can't wait much longer to try out samizdat.  Does anyone have any
>  objections to us initially putting the imc japan samizdat installation
>  on borg?
>
>  There is another "japan" server, but for various reasons, it will
>  be easier to try out samizdat on borg for the moment, and later on
>  we'll look at mirroring and/or shifting to the japan server.
>
>  As part of the proposal, i propose to give su access on borg to "kaz"
>  - he's well-known and trusted by the IMC Japan collective for many
>  years, though at the moment he's quite busy, so most of the
>  installation will, at least initially, be done by me, and kaz will
>  gradually take over.
>
>  This would most likely mean a potentially quite high load in early
>  July.  We'll definitely prepare backup plans, but the first thing
>  is to get the basic installation in place so that imc japan activists
>  can get used to the software and get it customised if needed.
>
>  My personal hope is that we'll get an imc site which functions
>  genuinely as more or less language-transparent and with
>  participatory-translation, which is especially important given
>  the language barrier/cultural stereotypes barrier between Japan
>  and many other cultures...
>
>  horizontalidad
>  boud




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