The box-admins team is reponsible for seeing that the community shared server is maintained and setting up any new features to be hosted on that server.
For October 2006:
The server was down for some period of time due to a power outage at the hosting provider early in the month. Clearly this was out of our control but hopefully not likely to be replicated in the near future.
One thing this outage did point out was that we had not gotten around to ensuring that some of the essential processes would automatically restart when the system restarted so there was quick round of setting up processes under daemontools ( http://cr.yp.to/daemontools.html ).
A couple of new hostnames were setup that currently redirect to other existing sites but may in time become the home for these services:
http://wiki.squeak.org/ -> http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/squeak/
http://news.squeak.org/ -> http://weeklysqueak.wordpress.com/
I would like to suggest that everyone get in the habit of using these wherever they would have previously used the old addresses so we can get in the habit and not be surprised when the old address stop working.
Brad Fuller is working on a new website for SqueakFoundation based on Pier and hopefully there will be some news about that soon.
I want to thank the community for the monetary support needed to fund these boxes and remind them that the bills continue to appear and that you can currently contribute to the hosting bills by going to
http://discuss.squeakfoundation.org/
and clicking on the 'donate' button at the top right. Note that a donation here may be used for other Squeak Foundation services including but not limited to development, development infrastructure, and promotion of Squeak.
The services being hosted have continued to grow and include (but are not limited to):
SqueakMap - http://map.squeak.org/
http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/
http://discuss.squeakfoundation.org/
http://source.squeakfoundation.org/
http://update.squeakfoundation.org/
and DNS services for squeak.org and squeakfoundation.org domain names.
Ken