[TriLUG] In a LUG a long time ago

[John Broome]

*former* SC perspective.

Now you're starting to wobble a bit.

Your original thesis was that your mail/web was important & that you didn't
trust yourself to manage it on a VPS somewhere, but a rotating group of
volunteers managing the infrastructure is somehow better.

But now based on "interest in playing with larger hardware and larger
systems" this mythical rack full of expensive hardware/storage has turned
into a lab environment for LUGgers to poke at?

My issue is that there are much better deals on VPS' out there for people
to experiment with instead of the LUG getting stuck with expensive hardware
and rackspace when the membership dwindles or finds another e-squirrel to
chase.



On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 1:54 PM, Igor Partola <igor at igorpartola.com> wrote:

> John,
>
> Thanks for the SC perspective. I am not suggesting that everything must be
> implemented, or that it's all practical, just asking for feedback.
>
> My main questions are "would anyone be interested in this?" and "how much
> would it cost?" If it's a matter of spending $2000 up front, and $50/month
> on bandwidth and rack space, I am sure we as a community could come
> together and raise this money. If it's $100k up front, and $1000/month,
> probably not so much.
>
> I am basing this on the sysadmin hackathons TriLUG hosted in the past:
> there is clearly interest in playing with larger hardware and larger
> systems. I'd be willing to finance a part of it, so that I could reap the
> benefits of others' knowledge and attention.
>
> As for paying a company to do all this for me, once again, I'd rather pay a
> non-profit, if it's to everyone's benefit. This is both for ethical reasons
> and for practical ones: I feel like TriLUG is less likely to sell the
> contents of my emails to an advertising agency than Zoho.
>
> Igor
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