[hackerspaces] request for help: hackerspaces.org tech

[Paul Bohm]

awesome! i'll be out of town till monday night (long weekend in yosemite
national park!) and i'll get back to you then!

best
-enki


On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 1:45 PM, James Carlson <james at schoolfactory.org>wrote:

> School Factory will donate its Rackspace cloud to carrying the hosting, if
> needed. We can't help much with the Mediawiki stuff, however. Let me know
> if you want us to help migrate. (We're doing this now for Open Design
> Engine and a couple of Space Federation spaces.)
>
>
> On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 2:56 PM, Chrrles Paul <charles.paul at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> I can write a Fabric (cuisine, technically) script to set up Mediawiki on
>> EC2 using the Rightscale API (so it could be deployed on other, better
>> service providers *cough* Softlayer).
>>
>> Let me know if you need help.  I have heavy lifting DevOps experience
>> doing just this on sites with high Alexa rankings.
>>
>> Take Care!
>> Charles
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 2:51 PM, Paul Bohm <bohmps at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hey Hackers!
>>>
>>> Hackerspaces.org has a problem and I really hope one of you can help
>>> turn Hackerspaces.org into a properly working, useful resource again.
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> 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 hackerspaces.org from scratch - e.g. to ec2 -,
>>> so that we can test migration (the classical dev, staging, production
>>> setup).
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> 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?
>>>
>>> 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!
>>>
>>> If you're interested send me direct mail and I'll coordinate!
>>>
>>> Thanks y'all! Hack on!
>>>
>>> -enki
>>>
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>>>
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