From: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@wmi.amu.edu.pl>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Rackspace is sponsoring orgmode.org hosting
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2013 11:00:45 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130926110045.30c63519@aga-netbook> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BC43274B-C806-472F-8AC0-6C0DFD2E1B38@gmail.com>
Dnia 2013-09-25, o godz. 16:49:20
Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com> napisał(a):
> Hi everyone,
>
> I guess it is appropriate to give a little shout-out to rackspace.com
> here, because a few month back they have decided to sponsor the
> webhosting for orgmode.org. Jason Dunsmore set us up with a
> rackspace account a few years ago (2010 IIRC) and has done a great
> service to our community by running the server for us and giving us
> many additional capabilities beyond what we used to have.
> Orgmode.org is hosting its own git repositories which we all use to
> get our updates and to push patches. It also runs the orgmode.org
> website and the worg pages, which are automatically created from the
> basic Org files whenever we push a change. I don't know if any of
> you has ever experience downtime of orgmode.org in the last few year
> - I do not.
>
> Over all these years Jason has put up with the hosting costs. Now
> Rackspace is stepping in, letting us do all of this for free, and
> without any ads we would have to display (except this one, maybe :)
> ) The server works great, just a virtual Linux machine where we
> (Jason, Bastien and myself) can log in and do all the configuration
> we want. A few minutes ago I tried creating a new VM, then resizing
> it, a lot of fun. As far as I know, we have a carte blanche from
> Rackspace, so if we can think of an additional interesting service we
> want to provide, we could. Let me know if you come up with an idea.
>
> Kodos to Jason for all his (continuing!) great work, and Kodos for
> Rackspace for the sponsorship!
>
> - Carsten
Great, thanks to them!
What about a feed aggregator, bringing together org-related posts from
various blogs? Something similar to http://texample.net/community/ in
TeX world.
Best,
--
Marcin Borkowski
http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski
Adam Mickiewicz University
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2013-09-25 14:49 Rackspace is sponsoring orgmode.org hosting Carsten Dominik
2013-09-26 9:00 ` Marcin Borkowski [this message]
2013-09-26 9:02 ` Bastien
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