[web-team] Volunteer

[Rick Moen]

Quoting Lisa Corsetti (svlug at flygirl.com):

> I started looking into doing this and it isn't nearly as bad as
> I feared -- though it is a LOT of "busy work."  Unfortunately I
> don't have near enough time to get any of this done in a
> reasonable amount of time.
> 
> I just thought I'd mention that to see if anyone has any
> specific ways they wish to proceed from here -- I would likely
> not get this *done* (if I ended up doing it) for many months.
> 
> Also, if someone else is working on this, I don't want to waste
> my time OR if someone else WANTS to work on this, I'd be happy
> to "hand over" what I have done so far. :-)

Josef Grosch is offering a capacious VM in his colo, free of charge.
I haven't started yet building a Debian system and configuring service
on it.  That would be the perfect test platform for candidate better
ways of doing things.

I'm pretty backlogged myself, so 'many months' is probably fine.

The big picture with Josef's VM is we can finally move everything
back to one machine and retire the Via.net creaky old server.

I _had_ been excited over Linode's VM finally having enough disk and RAM
to house all of our services, _but_ then I heard that Linode IPs have a
bad spamicity reputation, hence moving the mailing lists there would
badly injure their ability to reach people (without extra kludges).  
That was when Josef offered the present alternative.

So, is that clearer?  We're going to build a prototype host on Josef's 
VM that can house everything that www.svlug.org and lists.svlug.org
presently do.  We'll test better ways of doing things on the prototype
host.  We'll eventually sync up contents and migrate on a flag day.
And all of this is going to take a while.  Don't ask me how long because
it would just be a SWAG at this point, since work hasn't even started.