Winding down of Fosshost

Winding down of Fosshost

[indieterminacy]

Unfortunately Fosshost is being wound down, due to organistional 
failings at the executive level.

https://fosshost.org/

Given Fosshost's place in the ecosystem: is this something which 
requires mitigating at the Guix end?

-- 
Jonathan McHugh
indieterminacy@libre.brussels

Re: Winding down of Fosshost

[Tobias Geerinckx-Rice]

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Hi Jonathan,

indieterminacy 写道：
> Given Fosshost's place in the ecosystem: is this something which
> requires mitigating at the Guix end?

I'm aware of two dealings with Fosshost in the past, neither of 
them crucial:
- They hosted a Big Blue Button instance[0] only for the duration 
  of our COVID Days[1].
- They donated and hosted[2] two x86_64 machines.

fosshost1. responds to pings; fosshost2. does not.  I never had 
SSH access to either.  The machines may have been shut down and 
the fosshost1 IP repurposed.  They might never have made it to 
production at all.

Chris Baines[3], CC'd, will know.

Kind regards,

T G-R

[0]: (dead link) https://guixbbb.fosshost.org
[1]: 
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-europe/2020-12/msg00012.html
[2]: https://guix.gnu.org/fr/donate/
[3]: https://logs.guix.gnu.org/guix/2020-11-07.log#141750

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Re: Winding down of Fosshost

[Christopher Baines]

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Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr> writes:

> indieterminacy 写道：
>> Given Fosshost's place in the ecosystem: is this something which
>> requires mitigating at the Guix end?
>
> I'm aware of two dealings with Fosshost in the past, neither of them
> crucial:
> - They hosted a Big Blue Button instance[0] only for the duration   of
>  our COVID Days[1].
> - They donated and hosted[2] two x86_64 machines.
>
> fosshost1. responds to pings; fosshost2. does not.  I never had SSH
> access to either.  The machines may have been shut down and the
> fosshost1 IP repurposed.  They might never have made it to production
> at all.
>
> Chris Baines[3], CC'd, will know.

As far as I remember, the fosshost machines weren't used recently, and I
think they disappeared (and I didn't get around to following this up).

So I don't think we need to do anything in relation to them.

Thanks,

Chris

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Re: Winding down of Fosshost

[zimoun]

Hi,

On Sun, 04 Dec 2022 at 11:35, indieterminacy <indieterminacy@libre.brussels> wrote:

> Given Fosshost's place in the ecosystem: is this something which 
> requires mitigating at the Guix end?

On Sun, 04 Dec 2022 at 13:16, Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr> wrote:

> - They hosted a Big Blue Button instance[0] only for the duration 
>   of our COVID Days[1].

[...]

> [0]: (dead link) https://guixbbb.fosshost.org

Last time we used this BBB instance was for Outreachy back on November
2020 / April 2021.  After, we used other BBB instances.

They cancelled the BBB instance [0] some time ago; probably mid-2021 or
late 2021.  IIRC, they changed their policy and somehow asked us some
counterparts, so we moved.


Cheers,
simon