[Imc-oceania] FWD: Changes To Catalyst - URGENT

[Asher]

Hey,

Yeah, moving Oceania to Axxs sounds good to me (long as its sweet with Axxs
crew, of course).

I'm definately in favour of switching to Drupal too, but assuming that'll
take work/time, I reckon we should move current Oceania across and have crew
working on converting to Drupal - so there's no downtime between the 2
versions.

Cheers,
Asher


On 10/13/06, Cameron Gregg <cam at earthanarchy.org> wrote:
>
> Please note: this list is archived and searchable via the web.
>
>
> IMC-Oceania has it's website and email list hosted by cat, so we better
> make some decisions fairly promptly.
>
> What hosting provider do we want to move to? I'm thinking axxs.org
>
> We could also look at this as an opportunity to migrate the website to
> another codebase. Any thoughts on that? I'll suggest Drupal.
>
>
> also, indymedia.org.au has DNS hosting with c at t, that will need to be
> moved too.
>
> Cam
>
>
>
> Cameron Gregg wrote:
> > Please note: this list is archived and searchable via the web.
> > Dear Catalyst Member,
> >
> > We are writing to tell you, urgently, that Catalyst needs to stop our
> > internet
> > hosting within a month. If you, or your group have a website, email
> > list, web domain name, or
> > cat email address with us, you will need to make other arrangements as
> soon
> > as humanly possible. Your absolute deadline for moving your site, list,
> > email accounts and/or domain name hosting needs to be 15th of
> > November 2006.
> >
> > Unfortunately we can't avoid this, because if we don't make some
> > radical changes now Catalyst could
> > come to a grinding halt rather than making a graceful transition. You
> > are welcome to join us in Catalyst's next
> > incarnation with a focus on the community building aspects of our
> > project. Catalyst was set up over ten years ago as an anarchist
> > community web activist project, at a time when it was much harder to
> > access the internet. But
> > times have changed and now that there is an Internet Service Provider
> > on every corner, we are going back to our roots, supporting grassroots
> > networking and mutual aid.
> >
> > Luckily, there are many organisations and companies offering reasonably
> > priced and reliable hosting. Most commercial webhosts offer sites,
> > lists, email accounts and domain
> > name hosting. You can also access free email and mail lists at Gmail and
> > Yahoo Groups.We've listed some below to get you started.
> >
> > http://bur.st
> > http://www.blinddog.net
> > http://netaxxs.com.au
> > http://www.mdwebhosting.com.au
> > http://www.sykit.net/
> > this is only a sample.
> >
> > Catalyst will be re-emerging in the next couple of months with a new
> > system, and a new way of working, on the axxs.org server. Cat.org.au
> > will still exist, but we will be focussing all of our attention on the
> > projects that mean the most to the activist community. Most
> > importantly, we will be putting a lot of work into a new version of
> > ACTIVE, and if you'd like to  continue your relationship with Catalyst
> > (and our projects), we'd welcome your active involvement.
> >
> > This time round we will be focussing on as we relaunch active.org.au,
> > a sustainable web activist information
> > sharing tool. The new and improved Active will allow you to have your
> > own site, with your own domain and
> > events calendar, a huge improvement on the simple listing in the
> > groups area, as at present. This will put you
> > in the driver's seat, and makes us all less dependent on tech experts.
> > We're talking empowerment! Anyone who is interested in taking part in
> > this exciting new project is welcome to join the discussion list, and
> > to check out the developments as they take place:
> >
> > E.G.
> > http://lists.cat.org.au/pipermail/devactive/2006-September/000017.html
> > http://lists.cat.org.au/pipermail/devactive/2006-September/000019.html
> > as listed in the devActive archives at:
> > http://lists.cat.org.au/pipermail/devactive/
> >
> >
> > Wrapping Up:
> >
> > Here's a list of things to do before the 15th of November:
> > - Download your web page files and texts
> > - If you have a site with it's own domain name, make sure you change
> > the domain name server details from ns1.cat.org.au and ns2.cat.org.au
> > to the addresses provided by your new hosts. This often takes a couple
> > of days to switch over – don't leave it to the last minute.
> > Regrettably, we're unable to offer you any assistance with these tasks.
> >
> > Regarding Personal Email Accounts and Email Lists:
> >
> > Don't panic. We will do everything we can to leave you with some kind
> > of useful archive of your personal email and email list archives. We
> > will try to provide a single file with all your mail after the 20th of
> > November.
> > Our volunteer technical resources are completely stretched so suitable
> > offers of technical or other assistance will be appreciated.
> >
> > We'd like to take this opportunity to thank the many generous hands
> > who've helped for over ten years, and hope to continue doing what we
> > do best - helping activists.
> >
> > Hugh and Leah
> > Volunteers for Catalyst
> >
> >
> > _______________________________________________
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> > Imc-oceania at lists.cat.org.au
> > http://lists.cat.org.au/mailman/listinfo/imc-oceania
> >
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