[GRASS-user] GRASS is seeking mirrors in Latin America and South Africa

[Carlos Grohmann]

There's  mirror at University of São Paulo, Brazil :
http://vps.fmvz.usp.br/grass

best

Carlos



On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 5:42 PM, Margherita Di Leo <diregola at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> the GRASS community needs as soon as possible someone willing to offer a
> few GB and some bandwidth in Latin America and / or South Africa, because
> users located over there are experiencing serious problem in downloading
> the software (see below an email from grass-web ML). Please help!
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Madi
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Markus Neteler <neteler at osgeo.org>
> Date: Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 7:49 PM
> Subject: Re: [GRASS-web] Downloading GRASS
> To: Clarence Ndunguru <clarence.ndunguru at gmail.com>
> Cc: Margherita Di Leo <diregola at gmail.com>, GRASS-web <
> grass-web at lists.osgeo.org>, Rainer M Krug <Rainer.grass at krugs.de>, Gavin
> Fleming <gavinjfleming at gmail.com>, Paweł Netzel <pawel.netzel at uni.wroc.pl>
>
>
> Hi,
> (adding Rainer and Gavin)
>
> I am still in hospital and cannot easily do things as I wish in
> this period. Read on below:
>
> On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 7:18 PM, Clarence Ndunguru
> <clarence.ndunguru at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > I'm actually located in Suriname at the moment.
> > It could be better if I downloaded from a source in Latin America.
>
> ok, now I get it. We should be able to find an GRASS/OSGeo
> community member in the GRASS user or OSGeo discuss list
> to offer a few GB and some bandwidth.
> Maybe Madi, can you publicly ask?
>
> > The two
> > guys who tried to download are in Congo DRC and Tanzania.
>
> ok, so still another South Africa mirror would be good.
> Rainer or Gavin: any suggestions?
>
> > By the way, I have a web hosting plan with Bluehost in USA if this can
> used
> > to setup another download mirror,  I offer that we setup another mirrior
> on
> > it.
>
> thanks for this. Let's see if needed.
>
> So, what we have and how it works (relevant for Madi and me):
> http://grass.osgeo.org/mirrors/
>
> To "clone" the master server is now easy, one line of command essentially
> which points to the polish server.
>
> With Pawel Netzel who set it up, I already tried how to put the actually
> mirror name onto the main page but it was not yet beautiful enough for
> us. But that's a minor detail
>
> Best
> Markus
>
> PS: Those I have added here, hope that was ok. But I must be very
> efficient these days.
>
>
>
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>
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