[Adminsysters] Funds, maintenance, peertube

[Donna Metzlar]

Wonderfull, well done :)!

On 30/06/2021 15:54, mara wrote:
> 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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