[TOS] request for VM at OSUOSL

[Matthew Jadud]

2011/2/11 Ian Weller <ian at ianweller.org>:
> As Karsten said in his earlier email (thanks!), there is indeed a desire
> within the TOS community to run the infrastructure ourselves, modeling

Who wants to run the infrastructre? Personally, I think OSU has a
great infrastructure, and we probably have more to gain by having
their team run things than, say, people volunteering their time. I
certainly can't commit to helping admin a machine (staying on top of
patches, etc.).

> On the other hand, I think it would be important to utilize *some* of
> OSUOSL's services -- MySQL comes to mind from the IRC log I posted
> earlier this week.

Do we have the depth/bandwidth in the community to do better than
OSUOSL? If not, we shouldn't. (I was prepared to suggest DreamHost or
similar, because it makes doing things like provisioning a new wiki
*easy*, like "button press easy.")

> We already have plenty of people who want to volunteer -- ctyler

How many are "plenty," and when you say "volunteer," what are they
willing to do, and in what timeframe? Do we have 3 people who are
already committed/over-committed elsewhere? Or, do we have 15 people
who are lightly loaded, and have good experience in this space? How
much lead will we need to ask for (say):

* A Subversion instance, with
* 20 users, and
* associated Trac, and
* Integration with some kind of blogging platform, plus
* other tasty treats, like mailing lists, databases, and the like.

That is what (it seems like) OSUOSL offers, and I'm concerned we're
going to reinvent a wheel to achieve less.

> mentioned this in IRC last night. Short of any other discussion/debate
> on this topic, I think the next thing to do is to go forth with the

I guess this is concern/debate...

Cheers,
M