leaving the area; administrivia

[Philippe Troin]

Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> writes:

> I regret to announce that I will be leaving the Bay Area aound the end
> of April. I'm moving back East, so I won't be able to make many BAD
> meetings. 
> 
> It's been fun to watch BAD slowly grow, even as it seems to violate 90%
> of Rick's guidelines[1] for a successful LUG. It's been very satisfying
> to see meeting continue to happen even though I haven't done any work to
> organize them lately. So I think BAD will persist, as long as there are
> Debian enthusiasts in the Bay Area.
> 
> 
> The administrivia, of course, is that BAD is currently hosted on my
> server, kitenet.net. Kite will probably be down for at least a week as I
> move cross-country, though no mail will be lost. After that, it will be
> demoted to a slow dialup line many hops from most of you. So we might want
> to move the web page and mailing list elsewhere.
> 
> The mailing list runs on mailman, and, since I will probably have less
> interest in administering it on the east coast, another mailing list admin
> is needed too (Deidre is co-admin currently, but it's best to have more than
> one). It's a light workload, mainly spam and posts from people from
> non-subscribed addresses, the occasional mailman breakage..
> 
> And I will probably be even less able to keep the web page current, so
> someone needs to step forward to do that (or, ideally, several
> someones).
> 
> While these things are being moved, it might be best to protect against
> future moves by hosting them on a dedicated domain. Any debian developer
> can register bad.debian.net, which seems most appropriate.

I would be willing to host the mailing and web page if needed on a
800kbps line...

Too bad to see you leaving the bay area Joey...

Phil.