[GTALUG] [GTALUG-Announce] On the recent GTALUG Outage

[David Mason]

Hi,

I’m Chair of the Department of Computer Science at Ryerson, and we already provide GTALUG with a meeting room (when there’s no pandemic and it’s safe to meet in person).

I see no reason we couldn’t provide a virtual machine to run GTALUG’s visibility. I can’t imagine there is any significant amount of data or bandwidth required. So we would be happy to assist.

../Dave
On Jan 7, 2021, 2:29 PM -0500, Rouben via talk <talk at gtalug.org>, wrote:
> I work at UofT in IT and can inquire to see if UofT would be interested in hosting GTALUG infrastructure. Would this be of interest to the community? Any reasons (eg. reservations/requirements/bylaws/rules) against this?
>
> Rouben
>
> > On Thu, Jan 7, 2021 at 14:17 D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk <talk at gtalug.org> wrote:
> > > | From: Scott Sullivan <scott at revident.net>
> > >
> > > | We have great thanks to express to Hugh Redelmeier. A steadfast volunteer and
> > > | contributor of our community. Uncoordinated with the board, he reached out our
> > > | provider and offered to pay the bill. Successful by-passing our
> > > | misunderstandings, hotfixing the situation, and bringing us back on-line. He
> > > | will be compensated for an out of pocket costs.
> > >
> > > 1. The fix is temporary.  Linode has reinstated the server for the rest of
> > >    the billing cycle (I don't know how long that is; I've asked).  They
> > >    will get back to me about what I/we can do.
> > >
> > > 2. I offered to pay.  I don't know if they actually charged me.  If so,
> > >    I'm happy to contribute that to GTALUG.  Thanks for the several offers
> > >    of financial help.  Don't worry about it (unless this becomes
> > >    permanent).
> > >
> > > 3. I explicitly did not represent myself as authorized to linode.  I have
> > >    no admin access or anything like it.  GTALUG needs admin access to the
> > >    server or it needs to replace the server.  In other words: we still
> > >    have a problem.  This just buys GTALUG a bit of time.
> > >
> > > | Speaking personally, these are hard times. I as I've returned to help bridge
> > > | the gap from Chris's passing, I've found to many functions and knowledge and
> > > | pool in to few people and was not being effectively taught to new
> > > | contributors.
> > >
> > > This is a real problem with community groups.  It can be addressed but it
> > > isn't easy.  GTALUG has done amazingly well.
> > >
> > > | In the past, the board was just the voting head of a rotating group of some
> > > | 10-15 individuals that contributed and attended the executive meetings.
> > >
> > > That seems like a very healthy number, based on my experience with other
> > > groups.
> > >
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