[Adminsysters] Funds, maintenance, peertube

Wed Jun 30 17:16:54 CEST 2021

that's great, congratulations and yay!! i am drowning in an unbroken run
of rejections with my funding applications for UpStage, so it's great to
see something get funded!!

i am in the recovery position after an intense and amazing online
magdalena festival over the weekend; & at the same time super busy with
UpStage and preparing to fly to nz for 2 months next week - so not
following anything much at the moment. but cheering you all from the
sidelines!

h : )

On 30.06.21 16:05, Donna Metzlar wrote:
> 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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