[IMC-Docs] Offering to help with imc-docs

[garcondumonde]

hello mike, and others,

mike wrote:
> I volunteered myself at the most recent bristol imc meeting to get
> involved with the docs project.

cool! welcome :-) please read on...

> The main reason as far as bimc is concerned is to recover the bristol
> pages and get some sort of independent backup in place.  That might
> involve some sort of proposal to imc-docs in the future as to how
> smaller imc's can get access to backup thsir own files (using twiki
> web's?), or perhaps a mirror system,  or simply helping out with
> imc-docs itself.

well, i think that the best thing is to provide some backup somewhere
that is accessible by people - at least there would be a read-only copy
of the site if it was unavailable for whatever reason. nb. i did start
to set this up last year using a server in brasil, but there is no
public access to this setup (it also contains privileged
files/information), and i'm not sure how much other work has been done
on this either.

> In addition, I'd like to offer my own tech skills to this group -
> I've been maintaining linux web servers for several years now and
> I've set up and maintained several twiki sites.  If any help is
> needed, I would be happy to help - sounds like the server is back so
> if someone provided me a ssh account and access to the backup files I
> could look at the setup.

that would be fantastic! we do really need help as both intrigeri and i
are moving away from this project due to various reasons. however, we're
both still around a bit to help pass on the knowledge we have.

> I tried to sign up on the imc-docs-tech list recently using my
> googlemail address - mainly to see if there's anything in the
> archives about how much disk space and bandwidth the docs site needs,
> i.e. what resources would be needed for a mirror.  I'll reapply with
> this address, but if anyone here knows the answer to that maybee you
> could fill me in.


well, i think it's not much ;-)

there are some munin graphs - i think that they are at
https://munin.tachanka.org under kompost (the main server) and humus
(the actual docs.indy vserver) but i'm not sure if they're working or
not, or if the info is elsewhere. in any case, i'm pretty sure that all
the answers are "low"

as to joining the list - i think that someone needs to authorise the
subscription, but i don't know the password (anymore??) so maybe alster
is the best person to advise about that.

solidarity,

	--gdm