<div dir="ltr"><div style>Hey Hackers!</div><div style><br></div><div style>Hackerspaces.org has a problem and I really hope one of you can help turn Hackerspaces.org into a properly working, useful resource again.</div><div style>
<br></div><div style>The Hackerspaces Wiki is stuck on an old semantic mediawiki version - and it's broken on many levels. E.g. it's really hard - almost impossible - to list all the spaces. Pagination is broken, the map doesn't work anymore, etc. etc. It's basically just on life support.</div>
<div style><br></div><div style>Also it is running on a single physical server. upgrades are not likely to work without problems when migrating from such an old version to the current version, but leaving it in this broken state is like coma. Just trying to migrate the database of a server that hasn't been fully updated in years is scary, and might cause data model migration breakage and horrible downtime.</div>
<div style><br></div><div style>Having helped build a service that now serves hundreds of millions of users reliably (Dropbox), my standards are higher. So to make things easier to maintain again, I'd really like to have fabric or puppet scripts to deploy a new setup for <a href="http://hackerspaces.org">hackerspaces.org</a> from scratch - e.g. to ec2 -, so that we can test migration (the classical dev, staging, production setup).</div>
<div style><br></div><div style>Sector67, which doesn't properly show up in the index and feels like they are missing out on potential new members because of that, has now emailed me twice in the course of months. They have even offered a cash bounty to have this fixed. I'd really like to do this myself (for free), but I just can't seem to find the time. </div>
<div style><br></div><div style>Is there anyone out there who has the necessary Ops experience to deploy an ec2 instance per fabric script, and other stuff like copying over the database to a staging machine where we can test if it migrates properly. etc?</div>
<div style><br></div><div style>I'd add my own cash to Sector67's bounty, and I'd be glad to cover the hosting costs, but more than that you'd get mad geek cred for having built the deploy scripts for Hackerspaces.org (!). We've all helped build this community to over 700 active hackerspaces in just a few years. Now let's find a way to make this wiki a useful and usable resource again! </div>
<div style><br></div><div style>If you're interested send me direct mail and I'll coordinate!<br></div><div style><br></div><div style>Thanks y'all! Hack on!</div><div style><br></div><div style>-enki</div></div>