hackerspaces.org


meeting


2021-03-18



attending: lomatic, walterppk, dcht00, jomat

ALSO OPEN THIS VERSION WHEN IN PAD
--->>> https://pad.land/hso-20210318


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[R!] AGENDA/TOOLS -- using jitsi + pad

* (tried bbb, but had audio problems for 1 user, so moved to jitsi)
* sent a mail to mailing list to announce ... but was not delivered ;-)
* pinged on IRC channel



[!!!] ADMIN -- * mailing list down?

no messages received since october 2020 ...

who's taking care of the list?

walterppk says he sent out mails to list:
    dcht00 did not receive (only got one by hellekin?)
    others: "started receiving some"


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jo:
sometimes mailman crashes
A) cronjob to restart mailman every 5 hours?
B) monitoring stuff? zabbix is running
C) ###




[R!!] ADMIN -- server report

regular server status updates :)

    in data center in berlin (srv0 & srv1)
    contact person passed on 2020

migration:
    would be a good idea
    is in the works, jomat tries to find time, we are encouraging

walter offers server in USA, maybe some fin$

jomat: new server (srv2) already set up, waiting for migration





[!!!] ADMIN -- do we have BACKUPS ;) ?
    "in very old server on nessus?"
    "site died and i restored it"
    ---------------
"db with images is like 30gb or something like that"
"we could copy it ... to the new system"




[!] COOP/ADMIN -- let's set up a fundraiser for 2h/week for hso admins?



[!] DEV/WIKI -- embed mapall.space ?

could we embed https://mapall.space/ in hs.org so the map can render all locations
rather than the limited set we have now on the hs.org map

"how to only display hackerspaces though"
A) ... filter?
B) ?



[!] ADMIN -- could we set up reproducible server?
ansible, or sth like this?

"would be nice to have, esp for making pull request improvements"



[K] who's listening on tech@hackerspaces.org

(d sent mail few days ago about planet, no response)

who's on?
astera
hellekin
mwfc
fin
enki
brimstone
estera
bronson
georgio
erik
"""

DONE → subscribed david@totalism.org



[R!!] how can we help the admins?


    [!!!] help for jomat: offer a backup server (which will fetch backups) 

"used to use borg backups"
>walterppk ?

"~30gb or so"



    [!] ADMIN -- everyone join the #hsorg-team chatroom

jomat:
there is a hackerspaces-team or admins or sth like that irc channel on freenode






[!!] ADMIN -- what's privileged on the server?

* possibly ... (non-main) mailing lists
* ... maybe some archives?
* ... logs?
* [...]




[!!] ADMIN/DOCS -- jo : "we're (g5pw + jo) documenting something [about the admin] in separate dokuwiki"

https://dokuwiki.hackspaces.org/
not much content as of today, but could be useful for internal coordination

new accounts:
    sector67
    dcht00



[!] ADMIN -- domain stewardship

+paul

would we consider a multi-sig / phrase key?



[R] WIKI -- meetings page updated
https://wiki.hackerspaces.org/Meetings



[!!] ADMIN/DEV -- status of planet.hackerspaces.org

dcht00 sent them a mail a few days ago:
    planet@hackerspaces.org, tech@hackerspaces.org
    """
    I'd like to get involved to work on this (including refreshing the site, curating the RSS feed, encouraging people to use RSS more, encouraging spaces to release more etc). So can I get some sort of an access?
    """
    (no response yet)

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some cronjob might have stopped working?



[!!] DEV -- planet.hackerspaces.org improvement

* have an open pad for adding new feeds
* auto-finding RSS feeds from the wiki, with human curation, put them in the planet
* encourage people to document more
* encourage visibility with good posts



[!] DOCS/WIKI -- document: history of the page

when did it start?
who were admins?
who's still around?