[Imc-africa] tech (but not only) proposal from switzerland-tuscany

[Glenda Loebell]

Hello All
I am checking this out with people here in ZH will let
you know when I have a response.

Keep cool.
Glenda
--- killerina <killerina at ecn.org> wrote:

> Hi all!
> This mail has been written with the consensus of
> bolobolo tech lists
> subscribers.
> Few months ago Switzerland and Tuscany activists of
> the indymedia
> network decided to donate a new server to the global
> imc network
> because imc tuscany will need a new home and imc
> switzerland thought
> that they could help out with the current bottleneck
> of servers due to
> the loss of various systems.
> In tuscany there's a group of activists trying to
> complete a process
> for a new  network node (that should be
> toscana.indymedia.org) and in
> switzerland they are carrying on their project(s).
> We now have a new server
>
https://docs.indymedia.org/view/Sysadmin/BoloBoloInfo
> managed in this
> mailing list:
>
http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/listinfo/bolobolo-tech
> Thanks to some tech work, the server is now ready
> (here you can read
> more tech news about bolobolo server:
>
http://lists.indymedia.org/pipermail/bolobolo-tech/2007-March/0305-rr.html
> . 
> The server is located in Europe and therefor it will
> mainly host only
> non-european imcs.
> But we want this to be a political project and not
> only a technical
> stuff. What we would like to do is to share the
> server with new Africaans
> and Asian imcs that would need a place to stay. We
> want to host imcs from
> africa and/or asia, to renforce the network by this
> kind of
> cooperation. So if some imc, working in these
> continents, has some
> problem with finding and managing a server, here we
> are!
> Toscana.indymedia.org and video.indymedia.org will
> stay on this server
> too. Both Tuscany and Switzerland will pay the cost
> for the housing of
> the box and the bandwidth, as well they had bought
> the hardware.
> However, we are happy about any kind of donations,
> so that we might ask for 
> some money to the global finance working group in
> the future.
> If you are intersted in this project, write an
> e-mail to bolobolo list 
> (bolobolo-tech at lists.indymedia.org , that is even
> the place where we can 
> share techincal knowledges about the server
> configuration and such things) or 
> jump in #bolobolo-tech on the indymedia irc network.
> 
> solid.
> killerina
> Bolobolo-tech List
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Glenda Loebell-Ryan,
sos rassismus deutschschweiz,
Rosengartenstr.1
8037 Zürich
Switzerland
Tel. ++41 43 366 98 16
Email: info at sos-rassismus.ch
www.sos-rassismus.ch

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