Re: [Stellarium-pubdevel] Launchpad downloads

[Mike S. <oop...@gm...>]

On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 3:42 AM, Fabien Chéreau
<fab...@go...> wrote:
> You can make tests but it sounds pretty tough to me!
> For Stellarium, there are probably more critical things to do since we
> already plan to make the DSS work with conventional servers in the
> next weeks/months. But I also agree that such a system would be quite
> innovative if it works.
> For other tasks, please see/add/comment the Blueprints at
> https://blueprints.launchpad.net/stellarium

Agreed. I will.

> The size of the complete multi-resolution DSS that I have here is less
> than 250GB and my old estimation of the bandwidth is about 30TB/day,
> which is a lot but is also very uncertain because we don't have good
> estimation of number of users and also because these figure were done
> close to the server with an almost infinite bandwidth. So let's say
> that we can live with 10 TB/day.

That's a lot more bandwidth than I imagined. In fact, I had to set up
an analogy in my head just to think about it :-). Do you really mean
multiple servers? That's over 100MB/s you're talking about. I'm sure
you've already thought about this; I'm just curious.

> Before we buy any server, the plan is to create a "Stellarium
> association" which will allow to collect and use donation money in a
> proper and transparent way. I started the administrative tasks helped
> by a friend in France (we want to create a so called "1901 law
> association", which is a french-based association because this is the
> law I know the best).

I expected that would have to be done, and of course it's a good
thing. I'm somewhat familiar with American laws regarding non-profits,
but I know nothing about the French system. Good luck!

Mike