From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Marcin Borkowski Subject: Re: Rackspace is sponsoring orgmode.org hosting Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2013 11:00:45 +0200 Message-ID: <20130926110045.30c63519@aga-netbook> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45065) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VP7RO-0006Ek-6t for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Sep 2013 05:00:58 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VP7RK-0005ck-1F for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Sep 2013 05:00:54 -0400 Received: from msg.wmi.amu.edu.pl ([2001:808:114:2::50]:47448) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VP7RJ-0005cR-Pd for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Sep 2013 05:00:49 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by msg.wmi.amu.edu.pl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03C694AC41 for ; Thu, 26 Sep 2013 11:00:47 +0200 (CEST) Received: from msg.wmi.amu.edu.pl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (msg.wmi.amu.edu.pl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id B+pVg7RCmI6s for ; Thu, 26 Sep 2013 11:00:46 +0200 (CEST) Received: from aga-netbook (99-52.echostar.pl [213.156.99.52]) by msg.wmi.amu.edu.pl (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id D6FBB4AC40 for ; Thu, 26 Sep 2013 11:00:46 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Dnia 2013-09-25, o godz. 16:49:20 Carsten Dominik napisa=C5=82(a): > Hi everyone, >=20 > 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. >=20 > 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. >=20 > Kodos to Jason for all his (continuing!) great work, and Kodos for > Rackspace for the sponsorship! >=20 > - 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, --=20 Marcin Borkowski http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski Adam Mickiewicz University