[Box-Admins] Re: [Board] Re: Moving box3 off Gandi hosting

[Tobias Pape]

Hi,

On 29.08.2016, at 18:52, David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 29, 2016 at 06:25:51PM +0200, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
>> On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 6:00 PM, Tony Sebro <tony at sfconservancy.org> wrote:
>> 
>>> On 08/23/2016 11:15 AM, Bradley M. Kuhn wrote:
>>>> Squeakers,
>>>> 
>>>> It seems likely that Gandi won't renew our donated services, and even
>>>> more, they are shutting down the coloc facility where box3.squeak.org
>>>> lives as of 2016-12-01.
>>>> 
>>>> As such, I really suggest we move box3 and box4 off of Gandi's hosting
>>>> services onto the Rackspace services that we can get donated for you.
>>> As a reminder, we've already set up a Rackspace account for Squeak based
>>> on previous conversations.  Please let me know who needs access to
>>> handle the migration, and I'll create the necessary subaccount(s).  If
>>> you need to ping me via IRC, I'm available at keynote2k on freenode.
>>> 
>>> Thanks!  Best, -Tony
>>> 
>> 
>> Did someone reply? Where do we stand?
>> 
> 
> I have not seen a reply, but we certainly need to respond. It's probably
> best to have one person acting as our point of contact just to avoid
> confusion (Tim, is that you?).
> 
> We will need to rely on Levente for overall guidance and expertise,
> but the board needs to take ownership of communicating the strategy and
> direction (this should to a main topic for our next SOB meeting). We
> also need to identify the scope of work to be done, and find suitable
> volunteers to drive each of the services that needs to be migrated, and
> to do the actual work of migrating them.
> 
> For starters, I will volunteer to do the migration of squeaksource.com
> from box3.squeak.org to the new Rackspace servers.

FWIW, The last person that spoke technically with Bradley was me.
If I can be of help…

Best regards
	-Tobias