[Adminsysters] Funds, maintenance, peertube

[mara]

Hello!

We have good news, we got the funding! Yeah :))
The committee decided unanimously to support our proposal!

Among other things, that means that for 9 months, starting from
September we can pay sysadmins from our group to do backups and
maintenance for both systerserver and anarchaserver 400e per month, and
cover servers' costs for 2021 and probably 2022 as well (there is 500e
reserved for unforeseen expenses).

I have attached here the application with the planning activity and
budget overview for peertube install, 3 video hosting residencies, 3
workshops, sysadmin work.

ciao, m

On 6/21/21 11:20 AM, mara wrote:
> Hi again!
> 
> My replies inline below.
> 
> On 6/9/21 5:59 PM, ignifugo wrote:
>> I'm positive about the idea of peertube, but I don't think to help to
>> maintain it.
> The idea is to do it if we receive the fund. So in case there will be
> some financial resources to install and maintain it for some time and
> then evaluate if we can continue or not.
>>
>> I'm happy to partecipate in the conversation on backups (not as
>> architect), I think that we have to do backup but also public wrote real
>> clear that user have to conserve a local copy of what they put. that we
>> offer the possibility to show in internet, the continuty  of the
>> service, but they have to have a local archive. to not delegate totally
>> , just in case to be no more in contact or phisical divided and.. only
>> the user have the power to know what they want publish or not in the
>> future. (repristinate a backup could be critical and expose things that
>> was been erased). example for nextcloud, we can do a backup, but sync in
>> local I think is a good suggestion to do to our user. I say because I do
>> in another team, but ... yeee I'm open to speak about this if you see
>> that can be not nice for whatever reason in systerserver.
> Backup is most necessary for the mailing lists at this point. I'd start
> with this and use the backup repo and tool, which we set for
> anarchaserver. We have discussed it with the rest of us from
> anarchaserver and decided that we can share AS backup server for the
> lists as well. Here's a step-by-step howto:
> https://git.systerserver.net/systerserver/doc-website/-/wikis/Container-Backups-with-Restic
> If someone wants to do it, I can assist with pointing what to backup for
> the mailing lists and set up the ssh access to the backup server.
> 
> Then, ooooo mentioned contacting maadix for backup space. Any news on this?
> So once we have a backup server available we can use it for the rest of
> systerserver services. And yes if someone wants to update the
> systerserver landing page with info about our backup policy, please do
> so. I agree with iginifugo's points, and I believe the rest of us too?
>>
>> if is confortable for you, maybe is usefull now that you are studing
>> peertube.. if we put more than a services on a machine...
> Backup is very important if we want to put new services, once we have
> this, we can discuss other services as long as we come up with a
> scheduled maintenance that falls to the shoulders of more than one or
> two admins and preferably for specific period of times. E.g me or
> ignifugo does maintenance for the coming 2 months, then, others take
> over, etc. Just an example since, I won't have time to do admin work
> this summer, and I've done for a while till now.
>>
>> use docker to conteinarize them (only the running code, not db and not
>> data/config :).
> I heard peertube might have some issues in encoding when containerized,
> but we need to see closely if and when the time comes to install it.
> As a general policy, I see docker as a good tool for scaling, e,g when
> we want to quickly increase and load balanced a service, we can run more
> containers. Or for network isolation. In our case, I do not know why
> docker would improve our infra. Perhaps for experimenting with new
> software? Let me know your reasons.
> As docker is dependent on the host, if a kind of virtualization is the
> reason behind it, then lxc containers may be more useful. Something to
> discuss about it.
>>
>> but not feel this as a strict request.. do as you know and we can speak
>> and if we like we will move the services after..
>>
>> I missed.. when and where you meet..
> For the previous applications we did it as Feminist Hack Meetings with
> angeliki, artemis ooooo and me. This one, ooooo took the initiative just
> before the dealine of the first round and wrote it herself. When we
> heard it was preselected, I wrote here.
> So now we are applying for the second round and we meet this wednesday
> again at 10.30 CEST with ooooo and Mika for finalizing the application:
> https://antonieta.vedetas.org/p/feministische-servers-application
> There is a focus on Belgian queer art scene because the fund is regional.
> 
> Have a nice week!
> m
>>
>> thanks for makes plan and I appreciate love for systerserver!
>>
> 

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