From announce at mail.sfccp.net Mon Jul 23 01:20:53 2007 From: announce at mail.sfccp.net (San Francisco Community Colocation Project Announcements) Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2007 22:20:53 -0700 Subject: [sfccp-announce] SF Community Colocation Project - July 2007 Update Message-ID: <20070723052053.GC28354@linefeed.org> :: SAN FRANCISCO COMMUNITY COLOCATION PROJECT :: JULY 2007 ORGANIZATION UPDATE :: http://www.sfccp.net/ :: CONTENTS 1.0 Supporting Membership Open -- Sign Up Online 2.0 Facility & Service Improvements 3.0 LinuxWorld 4.0 Website Control Panel Update 5.0 Working Group Updates 6.0 Techmeet 2007 --------------------------------------------------------------------- 1.0 SUPPORTING MEMBERSHIP OPEN -- SIGN UP ONLINE SFCCP is asking for help right now from every single person who shares our values and wants to help build and maintain public, non-corporate internet institutions. Supporting Members can join SFCCP for as low as $10/month & it only takes 5 minutes to join online and while we are expanding our ISP facility, we need help now more than ever. Please take the time to help keep SFCCP growing. You can quickly sign up online at: http://www.sfccp.net/join.html --------------------------------------------------------------------- 2.0 FACILITY AND SERVICE IMPROVEMENTS We've just opened a new cabinet (available now for new servers)! Our first cabinet is officially filled up and we've started to expand. We've been planning a colo clean-up day which will be an open invitation to all colo members, sysadmins, volunteers and supporting members to meet at the colo facility and re-organize the cabinets, add shelves, and install some nice donated hardware upgrades for the network. This will be coordinated with all colo members and volunteers so it will be a good way for people to get to know each other. We will announce the time and date for this event on this list. --------------------------------------------------------------------- 3.0 LINUXWORLD SFCCP will be at LinuxWorld in the beginning of August. And on August 8th, we'll be hosting an open session to create discussion about why community colo's are important, to encourage people to support the idea and also to share our experience about how to set up a new community colo. We would like to invite everybody to join and participate! It'd be great to have some colo members present to talk about why they chose to join a CCP instead of corporate hosting. Another reason to come is that we're going to grab a few drinks after the workshop to celebrate this SFCCP public get-together. To participate, you need to register for the event. You can get a free Exhibit Pass between June 16 - August 5. After that, it costs $50. Here is the URL to register: https://register.rcsreg.com/regos-1.0/linuxsf2007/ga/index2.html Here are the time/date details - LW-BOF16: How to Start a Community Colocation Project in Your City August 8, 2007 6:00PM - 7:00PM San Francisco Moscone Center For a more detailed description of the workshop, go to this URL: http://www.sfccp.net/linuxworld.html --------------------------------------------------------------------- 4.0 WEBSITE CONTROL PANEL UPDATE Several meetings have been held about launching the new & improved SFCCP website. The new website will be well-designed visually but will also serve a number of functional purposes. Users will be able to log in, view stats about their machines in the colo like bandwidth and power usage, pay online and the whole site will be built on wiki software, which should encourage a lot of community knowledge sharing and documentation. If you have programming or sysadmin skills and would like to help on this project, please read the following update for information on getting involved. --------------------------------------------------------------------- 5.0 WORKING GROUP UPDATES The System Administrators Working Group has been meeting on a regular basis. The group is working on the website control panel, a ticketing system and finalizing their organizational setup. To get involved, you can go to the IRC meetings -- these are casual meetings held every Monday at 7PM, irc.indymedia.org, in channel #sfccp ... feel free to drop by and just jump in. Also, you could join the system administrator mailing list, where a lot of the actual coordination takes place. The URL is: http://mail.sfccp.net/lists/listinfo/sysadmins The Organizers Working Group has continued to meet on a regular basis. Current initiatives of the Organizers group include creating fundraising templates and pursuing grants and other donations, filing the paperwork to create a 501c3 entity and formalizing SFCCP policies and procedures. --------------------------------------------------------------------- 6.0 TECHMEET 2007 Tecmeet is a new annual tradition that started last year as a Developers Summit in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The gathering intended to bring together face-to-face "social techies" from around the world who have worked together for years on projects like SFCCP, Indymedia, and all kinds of similar things. Techmeet 2007 will not be held in one city. Instead, it will be a "distributed conference" with events held in many different cities over one week. The events will include audio and video teleconferencing with the other techmeet cities. Techmeet 2007 will be happening end-of-August/beginning-of-September. If you are interested in participating, please see http://www.techmeet.org/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- Thank you for your continued support of the San Francisco Community Colocation Project. You can reach us by e-mail at inquire at sfccp.net or by telephone at (415) 887-7679. If you would like to stop receiving these e-mails, you can unsubscribe yourself on this webpage: http://mail.sfccp.net/lists/listinfo/announce The San Francisco Community Colocation Project is a not-for-profit organization. While we are waiting for our 501c3 status to be filed, we are fiscally sponsored by the Agape Foundation. The e-mail is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial No Derivative Works 3.0 License, 2007. From announce at mail.sfccp.net Mon Jul 23 01:20:53 2007 From: announce at mail.sfccp.net (San Francisco Community Colocation Project Announcements) Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2007 22:20:53 -0700 Subject: [sfccp-announce] SF Community Colocation Project - July 2007 Update Message-ID: <20070723052053.GC28354@linefeed.org> :: SAN FRANCISCO COMMUNITY COLOCATION PROJECT :: JULY 2007 ORGANIZATION UPDATE :: http://www.sfccp.net/ :: CONTENTS 1.0 Supporting Membership Open -- Sign Up Online 2.0 Facility & Service Improvements 3.0 LinuxWorld 4.0 Website Control Panel Update 5.0 Working Group Updates 6.0 Techmeet 2007 --------------------------------------------------------------------- 1.0 SUPPORTING MEMBERSHIP OPEN -- SIGN UP ONLINE SFCCP is asking for help right now from every single person who shares our values and wants to help build and maintain public, non-corporate internet institutions. Supporting Members can join SFCCP for as low as $10/month & it only takes 5 minutes to join online and while we are expanding our ISP facility, we need help now more than ever. Please take the time to help keep SFCCP growing. You can quickly sign up online at: http://www.sfccp.net/join.html --------------------------------------------------------------------- 2.0 FACILITY AND SERVICE IMPROVEMENTS We've just opened a new cabinet (available now for new servers)! Our first cabinet is officially filled up and we've started to expand. We've been planning a colo clean-up day which will be an open invitation to all colo members, sysadmins, volunteers and supporting members to meet at the colo facility and re-organize the cabinets, add shelves, and install some nice donated hardware upgrades for the network. This will be coordinated with all colo members and volunteers so it will be a good way for people to get to know each other. We will announce the time and date for this event on this list. --------------------------------------------------------------------- 3.0 LINUXWORLD SFCCP will be at LinuxWorld in the beginning of August. And on August 8th, we'll be hosting an open session to create discussion about why community colo's are important, to encourage people to support the idea and also to share our experience about how to set up a new community colo. We would like to invite everybody to join and participate! It'd be great to have some colo members present to talk about why they chose to join a CCP instead of corporate hosting. Another reason to come is that we're going to grab a few drinks after the workshop to celebrate this SFCCP public get-together. To participate, you need to register for the event. You can get a free Exhibit Pass between June 16 - August 5. After that, it costs $50. Here is the URL to register: https://register.rcsreg.com/regos-1.0/linuxsf2007/ga/index2.html Here are the time/date details - LW-BOF16: How to Start a Community Colocation Project in Your City August 8, 2007 6:00PM - 7:00PM San Francisco Moscone Center For a more detailed description of the workshop, go to this URL: http://www.sfccp.net/linuxworld.html --------------------------------------------------------------------- 4.0 WEBSITE CONTROL PANEL UPDATE Several meetings have been held about launching the new & improved SFCCP website. The new website will be well-designed visually but will also serve a number of functional purposes. Users will be able to log in, view stats about their machines in the colo like bandwidth and power usage, pay online and the whole site will be built on wiki software, which should encourage a lot of community knowledge sharing and documentation. If you have programming or sysadmin skills and would like to help on this project, please read the following update for information on getting involved. --------------------------------------------------------------------- 5.0 WORKING GROUP UPDATES The System Administrators Working Group has been meeting on a regular basis. The group is working on the website control panel, a ticketing system and finalizing their organizational setup. To get involved, you can go to the IRC meetings -- these are casual meetings held every Monday at 7PM, irc.indymedia.org, in channel #sfccp ... feel free to drop by and just jump in. Also, you could join the system administrator mailing list, where a lot of the actual coordination takes place. The URL is: http://mail.sfccp.net/lists/listinfo/sysadmins The Organizers Working Group has continued to meet on a regular basis. Current initiatives of the Organizers group include creating fundraising templates and pursuing grants and other donations, filing the paperwork to create a 501c3 entity and formalizing SFCCP policies and procedures. --------------------------------------------------------------------- 6.0 TECHMEET 2007 Tecmeet is a new annual tradition that started last year as a Developers Summit in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The gathering intended to bring together face-to-face "social techies" from around the world who have worked together for years on projects like SFCCP, Indymedia, and all kinds of similar things. Techmeet 2007 will not be held in one city. Instead, it will be a "distributed conference" with events held in many different cities over one week. The events will include audio and video teleconferencing with the other techmeet cities. Techmeet 2007 will be happening end-of-August/beginning-of-September. If you are interested in participating, please see http://www.techmeet.org/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- Thank you for your continued support of the San Francisco Community Colocation Project. You can reach us by e-mail at inquire at sfccp.net or by telephone at (415) 887-7679. If you would like to stop receiving these e-mails, you can unsubscribe yourself on this webpage: http://mail.sfccp.net/lists/listinfo/announce The San Francisco Community Colocation Project is a not-for-profit organization. While we are waiting for our 501c3 status to be filed, we are fiscally sponsored by the Agape Foundation. The e-mail is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial No Derivative Works 3.0 License, 2007.