Dear all, I'd like to get started on preparing the free culture disk and fixing the few issues we had last year (file formats, better content, hosting/repository). While I believe the people helping to make it happen are still available to help, I was wondering which platform/site would be the best to host, manage and distribute the project? Our requirements are simple: - free bandwidth - discussion channels (list or web based) - easily accessible from all over the world (if possible) - large size file storage (DVD size) - version control system So suggestions and experience on the matter definitely welcome. Thanks. Fred
On 12-01-18 05:22 PM, Frederic Muller - SFI wrote:
Dear all,
I'd like to get started on preparing the free culture disk and fixing the few issues we had last year (file formats, better content, hosting/repository).
While I believe the people helping to make it happen are still available to help, I was wondering which platform/site would be the best to host, manage and distribute the project? Our requirements are simple: - free bandwidth - discussion channels (list or web based) - easily accessible from all over the world (if possible) - large size file storage (DVD size) - version control system
So suggestions and experience on the matter definitely welcome.
Archive.org comes to mind although it's non-trivial to upload and input all the metadata for each file. If a source, complete license and description/authors etc. are all provided I'll volunteer to do it. Fabián R. http://libreplanet.org/wiki/User:MagicFab -- -- Fabián Rodríguez
On 01/19/2012 06:30 AM, Fabian Rodriguez wrote:
On 12-01-18 05:22 PM, Frederic Muller - SFI wrote:
Dear all,
I'd like to get started on preparing the free culture disk and fixing the few issues we had last year (file formats, better content, hosting/repository).
While I believe the people helping to make it happen are still available to help, I was wondering which platform/site would be the best to host, manage and distribute the project? Our requirements are simple: - free bandwidth - discussion channels (list or web based) - easily accessible from all over the world (if possible) - large size file storage (DVD size) - version control system
So suggestions and experience on the matter definitely welcome.
Archive.org comes to mind although it's non-trivial to upload and input all the metadata for each file. If a source, complete license and description/authors etc. are all provided I'll volunteer to do it.
It's unfortunately blocked where I live... :/ Fred
It's unfortunately blocked where I live... :/
Hi Fred That might not be a great fire wall of China type block, it might be just the source site was re-configuring when you tried ?
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On 01/19/2012 08:05 AM, Julian H. Stacey wrote:
It's unfortunately blocked where I live... :/
Hi Fred That might not be a great fire wall of China type block, it might be just the source site was re-configuring when you tried ?
From Munich German at Thu Jan 19 01:03:27 CET 2012 I see:
SOPA and PIPA threaten free software. today we fight back. Dear Free Software Supporter, Today, for 24 hours, all of the FSF websites, .....
Cheers, Julian
It's been blocked for ages. Are there file size limits on repositories like sourceforge or google code for example? (I could check that myself...) Fred
Hi Fred My understanding of these services policies is that they do not explicitly prohibit large file hosting but will at least throttle accounts that show bandwidth usage higher than what they consider reasonable. I have not checked all the terms of service but here is as a reference, the clause from github
If your bandwidth usage significantly exceeds the average bandwidth usage (as determined solely by GitHub) of other GitHub customers, we reserve the right to immediately disable your account or throttle your file hosting until you can reduce your bandwidth consumption.
I don't know how many release of the large DVD files are needed to build the free culture disk but if this number is not too high, I would point at bit torrent to leverage the difficult (free bandwidth; large files) couple. Julien On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 11:05 AM, Frederic Muller - SFI <fred@softwarefreedomday.org> wrote:
On 01/19/2012 08:05 AM, Julian H. Stacey wrote:
It's unfortunately blocked where I live... :/
Hi Fred That might not be a great fire wall of China type block, it might be just the source site was re-configuring when you tried ?
From Munich German at Thu Jan 19 01:03:27 CET 2012 I see:
SOPA and PIPA threaten free software. today we fight back. Dear Free Software Supporter, Today, for 24 hours, all of the FSF websites, .....
Cheers, Julian
It's been blocked for ages. Are there file size limits on repositories like sourceforge or google code for example? (I could check that myself...)
Fred
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Yes so it seems: I was reading sourceforge terms of use and couldn't find any specific number neither. I suppose we need a few download/uploads to master the DVD and then we should probably offer a peer to peer access for everyone who wants to download the 'stable' version (as we did in 2011). We could also have the stable versions hosted on archive.org as Fabian volunteered to help out with those. So now I guess we just need to pick a service. I'd be happy to hear from the people who have helped in 2011 and not be the only one choosing. Thanks. Fred On 01/19/2012 11:35 AM, julien forgeat wrote:
Hi Fred
My understanding of these services policies is that they do not explicitly prohibit large file hosting but will at least throttle accounts that show bandwidth usage higher than what they consider reasonable.
I have not checked all the terms of service but here is as a reference, the clause from github
If your bandwidth usage significantly exceeds the average bandwidth usage (as determined solely by GitHub) of other GitHub customers, we reserve the right to immediately disable your account or throttle your file hosting until you can reduce your bandwidth consumption.
I don't know how many release of the large DVD files are needed to build the free culture disk but if this number is not too high, I would point at bit torrent to leverage the difficult (free bandwidth; large files) couple.
Julien
Hi there, On Thursday 19 January 2012 03:53:15 Frederic Muller - SFI wrote:
Yes so it seems: I was reading sourceforge terms of use and couldn't find any specific number neither.
I suppose we need a few download/uploads to master the DVD and then we should probably offer a peer to peer access for everyone who wants to download the 'stable' version (as we did in 2011). We could also have the stable versions hosted on archive.org as Fabian volunteered to help out with those.
So now I guess we just need to pick a service. I'd be happy to hear from the people who have helped in 2011 and not be the only one choosing.
Did you check http://savannah.gnu.org/ ? Seems the best place in terms of what we are intending to promote, I don't know if there are size constraints tho. Best regards, -- Marcos Marado ANSOL
Hey hi , This is just a different query , how does the transfer of OSUM Lead happen ? Thanks, Subhankar On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 9:05 PM, Marcos Marado <mindboosternoori@gmail.com>wrote:
Hi there,
On Thursday 19 January 2012 03:53:15 Frederic Muller - SFI wrote:
Yes so it seems: I was reading sourceforge terms of use and couldn't find any specific number neither.
I suppose we need a few download/uploads to master the DVD and then we should probably offer a peer to peer access for everyone who wants to download the 'stable' version (as we did in 2011). We could also have the stable versions hosted on archive.org as Fabian volunteered to help out with those.
So now I guess we just need to pick a service. I'd be happy to hear from the people who have helped in 2011 and not be the only one choosing.
Did you check http://savannah.gnu.org/ ? Seems the best place in terms of what we are intending to promote, I don't know if there are size constraints tho.
Best regards, -- Marcos Marado ANSOL
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Hi, Frederic Muller - SFI wrote:
Dear all,
I'd like to get started on preparing the free culture disk and fixing the few issues we had last year (file formats, better content, hosting/repository).
While I believe the people helping to make it happen are still available to help, I was wondering which platform/site would be the best to host, manage and distribute the project? Our requirements are simple: - free bandwidth - discussion channels (list or web based) - easily accessible from all over the world (if possible) - large size file storage (DVD size) - version control system
So suggestions and experience on the matter definitely welcome.
Suggestion make it a DVD that can also select & play like a normal commercial DVD connected to a TV. I found ours would only view on a computer. So though I'd also brought one of those car players with 2 screens ((the kind that strap on car seats to keep kids in the back occupied normally) It wouldnt play. & the people demoing various Linux & BSD didnt want to sacrifice their PCs just to play it. (We had originally hoped to play stuff on an umanned desk between Linux stand & BSD stand). We could have even piped it from that device into a projector in a spare lecture theater we had available (Id have been prepared to risk my player device unattended) - but none of us were about to leave our laptops unattended in a remote room. Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultants Munich http://berklix.com Reply below not above, cumulative like a play script, & indent with "> ". Format: Plain text. Not HTML, multipart/alternative, base64, quoted-printable.
participants (6)
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Fabian Rodriguez -
Frederic Muller - SFI -
Julian H. Stacey -
julien forgeat -
Marcos Marado -
Subhankar Mishra