[Adminsysters] Funds, maintenance, peertube

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Hello,

I agree w/Donna -- a lot to look forward to.
I would like to be involved in the systerserver admin work, in case i am regarded a good fit.


All best to everyone,
mika




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On Tuesday, June 8th, 2021 at 6:42 PM, mara <mara at multiplace.org> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
> 

> With the hibernation of systerserver in mind, and the unfortunate event
> 

> of not having an /etc any time soon, am writing to propose some
> 

> resources, and inform of the server's current state.
> 

> Our few (semi-)public tools, gitlab, nextcloud, mailman3, need upgrade
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> and maintance, and the server needs a backup system. Among other stuff,
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> such as nfra costs, re-purposing the old systerserver, expanding the
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> systerserver.net landing page with content and styling.
> 

> Together with ooooo, angeliki and artemis we have looked into some
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> funding possibilities, that involve around sysadmin work and organizing
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> online workshops.
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> At the moment, we were rejected by Lush
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> (https://nl.lush.com/tag/charity-pot), where we applied for two frontend
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> styling workshops, one for systerserver.net and one for anarchaserver.org.
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> Feminist Hack Meetings (FHM) have applied as a partner with Varia (NL),
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> Constant (BL), Lurk (FR/NL/PT), Esc and HYPHA (RO) for an EU fund to
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> organize events around decentralized platforms in each country. FHM
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> budget for activity will contribute to systerserver costs. We expect
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> results end of this month.
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> Me and ooooo, we are now preparing an application for a Belgian fund
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> (https://afairnewidea.be/en/waarom), that could provide a yearly small
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> income for admin work, so admins from this list, who would like to
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> contribute in systerserver they can also benefit from a small wage. The
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> persons shall rotate on a schedule, but this is a later discussion. In
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> this application, we would like to add a peertube installation to
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> accommodate feminist and artivist content as an experimental platform
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> for short-term residencies or per request hosting.
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> I started looking into peertube requirements before writing here, to
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> check if it would be possible for adele to host such a thing, so here is
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> a FAQ:
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> https://joinpeertube.org/en_US/faq#should-i-have-a-big-server-to-run-peertube.
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> We'd also need to ask mur.at for the uplink bandwidth. Interesting
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> aspect, is that peertube instances can be federated and use each other
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> for caching and mirroring.
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> Please let us know your feedback, objections and any comments you would
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> like to share on the summarized following points:
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> -   fund for sysadmin work and covering costs of systerserver for a year.
> -   peertube installation, maintenance.
> -   offer peertube for specific feminist projects for specific periods of
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>     time.
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>     Hope you all doing well, and apologies for the long and dense email.
>     

>     warm greetings
>     

>     Mara
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