[Openinteract-help] supporting OpenInteract

[Chris W. <ch...@cw...>]

As you may have noticed the openinteract.com|org sites have been down 
for some time now. They're currently hosted by a company I used to work 
for but they're apparently having some problems, and fixing it is 
understandably a very low priority for them.

I really want to get things up and running again but not depend on 
anyone else -- SF is good (and free!) but has some lag/performance 
problems, plus I can't install mod_perl on it. So I've planned to buy a 
decent rackmount server and take advantage of an offer (from the 
current host) for free bandwidth. But my budgetary constraints have put 
these plans on hold for some time. Recently someone on the mailing list 
pinged me and said they'd be happy to help out with some cash toward a 
new server and I figured maybe some other folks would too.

So here's your chance (or your company's chance) to help out 
OpenInteract! Anything you contribute will go directly toward buying a 
1U rackmount server that will run:

  * OI.org/com websites
  * OI wiki
  * CVS for OI, OI2 and SPOPS and some other CPAN projects
  * OI2 demo site
  * Also some of my personal stuff (SMTP/IMAP/website)

You wouldn't get any sort of administrative say over the server but if 
you're a CVS committer you'd probably get an account. And if you're 
active on the mailing list it would be easy to setup a simple email 
forwarding service if you need it (fo...@op... may look better 
than fo...@ya...). (That's just off the top of my head, I don't 
know how this stuff normally goes.)

If you're interested just go to paypal.com and send money to 
'ope...@cw...'. If you do let me know in the note if it's 
okay to put your name on a 'Thank You!' page I'll create. If there's 
any objection to paypal let me know and we can work something else out.

Thanks!

Chris

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Chris Winters
Creating enterprise-capable snack systems since 1988