[LUAU] Moving LUAU

[R. Scott Belford]

Over the next few days we will be moving hosef.org, the wiki, the
gallery, and the mailing list off of our box at UH.(1)  It has been more
than a year since plans were made to expand the capacity of our mirror, 
and now it is time to do it.  Many thanks go out to Cliff Royston and 
Michael Bishop for following through on their donations for hard drives, 
and to Julian Yap for filling in for a few others with his donation.  We 
will soon have over a terabyte in storage.

It's a funny thing.  The 120gb drive that partly started HOSEF is still 
in the mirror.  Once upon a time the use of a donated drive was the 
source of great debate on this list.  I wrote a check for 125 bucks to 
some guy to buy his half, and then Warren could proceed in helping the 
community without interruption.

I wanted a deduction for that, and I wanted to see some kind of 
democratic entity develop that could facilitate the dreams of Warren, 
the needs of LUAU, and the grassroots requirements for Hawaii to 
consider adopting FOSS.  There it all started, and here we are.

In moving LUAU, the opportunity exists for anyone else to take over its 
management if they would like.  Someone from the pre-hosef days is 
welcome to admin it, and, if you want, you can host it elsewhere.  We 
are moving to dreamhost, and they will handle the import of the list and 
archives.

When we started HOSEF we created an announce list and a managers list to 
avoid spamming LUAU.  In my enthusiasm for all we do I have crashed the 
LUAU party, often.  While I don't consider the outreach spam, I fully 
appreciate that there is only so much oxygen in the room, and sometimes 
I hyperventilate. :-)

Please let the list, me, or Vince know if you want to assume the helm of 
LUAU.(2)

--scott


(1) Brian Chee and SOEST have been monumentally gracious in supplying us
power and bandwidth for years.

(2) hosef at site:~$ date
Thu Dec 27 10:35:14 HST 2007
hosef at site:~$ uptime
10:35:19 up 378 days, 14:45,  1 user,  load average: 0.01, 0.02, 0.00