[Imc-drupal-dev] Nex t Steps for a Drupal IMC

[mark burdett]

On Tue, 18 Nov 2008 19:19:16 -0500, robbt at azone.org wrote:
> Our local IMC is hosted on a VPS (virtual private server) rented from a
> small business that was just acquired by Rackspace (the company that gave
> over the servers to the FBI back in London). I'd like to offer hosting to
> other IMCs who are in need but I'd also like to be hosted by a more secured
> server, so I feel like my hands are tied in that regard.

using any corporate VPS service seems pretty sketchy for an indymedia 
site, but a VPS can be a good solution if u trust the hosting provider 
(e.g. some like-minded non-profit) and maybe u can have some security 
precautions like using an encrypted partition.

a tech coop I'm a member of, Cernio, offers cheap VPS plans, cheaper 
than that rackspace subsidiary..  not that I encourage IMCs to pay for 
their hosting but I know Indybay does pay these days; at some point it 
became easier to find donations and pay a coop for hosting than to find 
donated bandwidth.

> I know that I tried to spearhead the Drupal development but I was unable to
> maintain the focus on it needed to bring it forward, and I have had good
> conversations with people from other IMCs about having meet-ups but then

one reason it's been hard for me to contribute much to indy development 
lately is just that i'm not actually building a site myself.  if the 
people who are (or want to) could post specific needs and feature 
requests it might be easier for people like me to randomly plug in and 
help with something here and there.  for example i posted the IP anon 
module after someone asked about this on 
http://groups.drupal.org/indymedia

> communications listserve especially in response to the corpwatch article
> draft.

btw I think that was the UK-based corporate watch, not the US-based 
corpwatch.. apparently two different orgs with similar names..

--mark