[SAC] website where art thou

[christopher.schmidt at nokia.com]

On Aug 5, 2010, at 2:38 PM, ext Daniel Morissette wrote:

> FYI, probably a related issue, the http://geonetwork-opensource.org/
> address gives no response and has no redirect. Yet, it's the top result
> for a Google search on "Geonetwork"... that doesn't look good on the
> project IMHO.
> 
> The issue was raised on the geonetwork-users list, but there has been
> little/no feedback from the project leads:
> http://osgeo-org.1803224.n2.nabble.com/Bad-Gateway-tt5362974.html#a5362974

Correct, this is in Jeroen's hands at the moment. The Geonetwork site was
hosted on one of the blades which was hacked, and was a somewhat custom
plone setup as I understand it. In addition to the site going down, the 
hard drive it was hosted on is now toast as well. I believe that the data
is still 'safe' (copied off somewhere), but that it will require Jeroen
to set it back up somewhere.

I have made an offer to Jeroen to help set him up with any resources that
he needs on the projects VM; additionally, I believe Alex has been working
to help duplicate the Plone setup.

This was my understanding of the state as of a couple days ago.

Jeroen mentioned that his availability was limited at the moment due to a 
number of travel plans.

-- Chris

> Jody Garnett wrote:
>> With a helpful reminder/prodding from the geotools-user email list I was
>> reminded that the geotools.org <http://geotools.org> website was offline.
>> Jason sent along the message that we should assemble on this email list
>> to sort things out.
>> 
>> I was not aware of the ProjectsVM (and I assume that is how
>> mapserver.org <http://mapserver.org> has been restored). What steps can
>> we take to restore the geotools.org <http://geotools.org> website; I am
>> afraid I am not a linux admin and am likely to be much help myself.
>> 
>> Jody
>> 
>>> Not sure if my earier email to the list via Nabble showed up (I should
>>> know better).  Here's the content:
>>> 
>>> I'm listed as a DNS admin for geotools.org <http://geotools.org/>, and
>>> received an email from a user that the geotools.org
>>> <http://geotools.org/> website was offline. 
>>> 
>>> Had a quick chat with the OSGeo administrators on IRC, and apparently
>>> the server is in the middle of an extended downtime.  Because of the
>>> nature of this downtime, they suggested that it would be best for the
>>> Geotools community to work via the OSGeo Systems Administration
>>> Committee mailing list ( http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/sac )
>>> to transition the geotools.org <http://geotools.org/> website to the
>>> new Projects VM: 
>>> 
>>> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/ProjectsVM
>>> 
>>> Jason
>> 
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