[IMPORTANT] Infrastructure, hosting, etc

[Ivan Krstić]

Folks,

we've fallen somewhat behind in our infrastructure work. Notably, a  
number of you applied for hosting and haven't heard back from us --  
our apologies for that. Less visibly, our current server setup isn't  
what we'd like it to be. We lost our sysadmin recently, so I will  
personally clean up both issues over the next week. Regarding the  
former, if you don't hear back from me about your hosting request by  
tomorrow, please post another copy to the list. Regarding the latter,  
there will likely be some intermittent downtime on all public-facing  
OLPC services as I move things around. It hopefully shouldn't be too  
noticeable, but if you can't get to one of our servers sometime in the  
next 7 days, don't panic -- take a deep breath, go out, see the  
daystar, hug your children, try again later.

We have a full-time sysadmin starting in January, which should make  
all this much smoother in the future. He's a great guy, and I will be  
introducing him on-list when he starts.

Cheers, happy holidays,

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Ivan Krstić <krstic at solarsail.hcs.harvard.edu> | http://radian.org