[GRASS-web] Downloading GRASS

[Markus Neteler]

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.