[ubuntu-us] ubuntu-us.org website

[Charles Profitt]

I will go with option # 2 as well... I do not know Drupal yet... so I
can offer no technical experience at this time.

On Mon, 2009-03-02 at 16:51 -0500, dan wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 4:45 PM, Elizabeth Krumbach <lyz at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > One of my tasks from the past meeting was to try to regain access to
> > the Canonical-hosted ubuntu-us.org and planet.ubuntu-us.org sites. I
> > submitted a ticket to get new people added last week and have heard
> > nothing back, I don't even have a ticket number :(
> >
> > The speed at which the Canonical sysadmins can address requests
> > related to hosting is a well-known problem, so we should determine
> > where to go from here.
> >
> > 1. Wait for the sysadmins to keep Canonical hosting
> >
> > 2. Use the UbuntuPennsylvania.org Hardy Linode that was donated to us
> > to host the sites (I confirmed with Linode that it's cool for us to
> > host the ubuntu-us sites too). The DNS change requires a ticket, but
> > can be done very quickly, the fellow who handles DNS changes hangs out
> > on IRC and is very responsive.
> >
> > I am heavily leaning toward #2. Of course anyone involved in
> > developing the site would get an ssh login to the Linode and access to
> > the resources. If we go this route we should decide whether we want to
> > start from scratch, deploying a whole new infrastructure or if we
> > should see about getting the old data from the Canonical sysadmins and
> > going from there.
> >
> > Thoughts?
> >
> > --
> > Elizabeth Krumbach // Lyz // pleia2
> > http://www.princessleia.com
> >
> 
> 
> I'm in favor of #2, and would be willing to help out.
> 
> dan
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