On 06/15/2012 06:49 PM, Bill Broadley wrote: > On 06/15/2012 12:25 PM, Jan Wender wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> Arend from Penguin replied and they are looking for the list. They would >> like to continue hosting the list, but would ask for some volunteers to >> administrate it. > > Well if they are doing such a poor job and aren't willing to > administrate it we should move it elsewhere.
Hmmm ... I pinged my contact within Penguin and was told they were working on it. This said, I seem to remember that beowulf.org was Scyld property before the acquisition by Penguin. Looking at the whois output somewhat confirms ownership. If this is the case, "we" can't move it "elsewhere" without the owners (Penguin's) permission. I think that part of why its fallen by the wayside at Penguin is due to Don taking up residence at Nvidia, and no one either stepping up to it or being assigned to it. All of this said, if a reasonable proposal is made to Penguin about helping to run/administer it, I think they might be willing to consider it. If, on the other hand, it is approached in a somewhat more brusque manner, I wouldn't hold a refusal to consider proposals against them. So far, we, Chris Samuel, Doug Eadline, Jon A, and a few others have indicated a willingness to help. I can't say I like mailman very much (set many up, royal PIA to deal with IMO), but Chris Samuel has good mailman-foo. Might make sense to enable admin by Chris and a small group of mailman-gurus. I've got (whether I like it or not) web-foo ... and mail server foo ... and would be happy to help there. Doug/Jon/... have foo of all sorts, and would certainly help out. If we needed distributed carbon-bots for moderation, this is doable (Chris might be able to comment on this). We would (my company) be happy to setup/donate a small server with storage to run this if Penguin wants to get completely out. We could host it as well at our site. Could also run it on EC2, though I can tell you that this is not nearly as cheap as Amazon might wish you to think. The cost benefit doesn't really work so well for this ... Lots of possibilities. Seems to me though, that one of the natural leaders of this would be Doug Eadline. Don't know where ClusterMonkey sits, but that is a well run site. Just sayin... -- Joseph Landman, Ph.D Founder and CEO Scalable Informatics Inc. email: land...@scalableinformatics.com web : http://scalableinformatics.com http://scalableinformatics.com/sicluster phone: +1 734 786 8423 x121 fax : +1 866 888 3112 cell : +1 734 612 4615 _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
