Offer of help with ConTeXt Wiki

Offer of help with ConTeXt Wiki

[Corin Royal Drummond]

Hi Mojka and Everyone,

Seems like the ConTeXT Wiki is down again.  Judging from the list it 
would seem this was a regular problem. 

I'd really like to give back to the community by helping Context Garden 
grow into a one-stop shopping site for all ConTeXt seekers.  Currently, 
things are a bit too haphazard for my tastes.  I think it makes the 
learning curve harder than it really should be. 

I'm a Linux system admin, and web developer, so I could help with 
troubleshooting, upgrades, hosting (have my own shared server), 
categorizing content, soliciting articles, fleshing out the FAQ, moving 
some answers from the list archives to the Wiki, creating screencasts 
and tutorials, and stuff like that. 

Now would be a good time for me to work on this, as I've been ill and 
have lots of free time in bed. 

It would be wonderful to help ConTeXt's bid for world domination by 
crafting the best experience possible for new and experienced users to 
find what they need quickly. 

Please do contact me and let me know how I might be useful. 

With warmest regards,

Corin Royal Drummond
San Francisco
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Re: Offer of help with ConTeXt Wiki

[Arthur Reutenauer]

> I'm a Linux system admin, and web developer, so I could help with 
> troubleshooting, upgrades, hosting (have my own shared server), 

  The problem is really hosting.  For some reason, the machine, a
virtual server with approximately 20GB disk space, stops responding to
HTTP queries (or SSH, etc.) when the main partition is about 99% full or
so.  Patrick Gundlach, who runs the server, has already discussed
options to migrate it, but the situation has remained the same for the
last few months.  We have not attempted to diagnose the problem (in case
you have any idea ...).

  Actually, now I think about it, you would certainly be welcome to run
a mirror of the Garden in the U.S., since Patrick's machine is located
in Germany.  This would probably be even better than simply replacing it
(and of course still leaves the particular problem to be solved on the
German server, but it must have happened three or four times in the past
six months, so it's not that terrible either).

	Arthur
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Re: Offer of help with ConTeXt Wiki

[Hans Hagen]

Arthur Reutenauer wrote:
>> I'm a Linux system admin, and web developer, so I could help with 
>> troubleshooting, upgrades, hosting (have my own shared server), 
> 
>   The problem is really hosting.  For some reason, the machine, a
> virtual server with approximately 20GB disk space, stops responding to
> HTTP queries (or SSH, etc.) when the main partition is about 99% full or
> so.  Patrick Gundlach, who runs the server, has already discussed
> options to migrate it, but the situation has remained the same for the
> last few months.  We have not attempted to diagnose the problem (in case
> you have any idea ...).
> 
>   Actually, now I think about it, you would certainly be welcome to run
> a mirror of the Garden in the U.S., since Patrick's machine is located
> in Germany.  This would probably be even better than simply replacing it
> (and of course still leaves the particular problem to be solved on the
> German server, but it must have happened three or four times in the past
> six months, so it's not that terrible either).

if i remember right, taco could provide a bigger vm; in that case 
mirroring can be part the game

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