[Open-bio-l] [OBF Members] OBF server outage announcement / call for SysAdmin volunteers

[Andy Jenkinson]

Hi guys,

What's the latest on this?

What is involved in getting things fixed?

Cheers,
Andy

On 1 Nov 2012, at 17:26, Peter Cock <p.j.a.cock at googlemail.com> wrote:

> Dear all,
> 
> As many of you may have noticed, yesterday the Open Bioinformatics
> Foundation (OBF) server hosting the mailing lists and most of the
> Bio* websites went down.
> 
> The mailing lists and simple static webpages (e.g. download pages
> for Bio* releases) seem to be back online, as is the OBF news blog:
> http://news.open-bio.org/news/ - but the wiki pages are down
> (which unfortunately means the Bio* homepages are unavailable).
> 
> Services on the failing server are being moved to virtual machines
> on the Amazon Cloud, so it may take a few days until everything
> has been set up properly and the wiki will be back.
> 
> If there is anybody from the Bio* projects who wants to join the OBF's
> SysAdmin team and help out with projects like this one, this would be
> a good moment to volunteer - please email me or Chris Dagdigian
> (the OBF Treasurer and our head Systems Administrator).
> 
> Thank you, and please bear with us,
> 
> Peter
> On behalf of the OBF Board of Directors.
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