[web-team] Volunteer

[Lisa]

On Tue, Mar 03, 2015 at 03:38:03PM -0800, Josef Grosch wrote:
> On 3/3/15 2:27 PM, Rick Moen wrote:
> > 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.
> >
> >
> >
> 
> Yes, I did volunteer a VM to host SVLUG. Right now it is shutdown as I 
> screwed up configuring postfix and I managed to create an open relay 
> that the spammers found. That is what I get for configuring an MTA at 3am.
> Firing it back up only takes a few minutes, mostly waiting for the 
> virtual machine to fsck the disk. I'll be at the SVLUG meeting tomorrow 
> night, catch up with me and we can put our heads together as to our next 
> move.

I won't be there.  I have to teach a class tomorrow night and won't be done
until about 8:30.

What I have worked on is the concept of keeping the pages as PHP but
generating them "offline" via a cron job.  As I said, it doesn't seem
difficult, but it's busy work.

Lisa