From kde-promo Tue May 29 19:47:49 2001 From: Navindra Umanee Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 19:47:49 +0000 To: kde-promo Subject: Re: [kde-promo] The Dot X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-promo&m=99116567931056 Rob Kaper wrote: > As most fo you probably already noticed, The Dot is down again. A lot of KDE > related keywords show up in Google with a link to dot.kde.org and a lot of > people probably try to visit on a regular base because it's the premiere KDE > news site. So, it's _bad_ promo to have it down so frequently. It is. Andreas would normally deal with it but he's away on vacation. :( > Perhaps we should consider hosting it elsewhere? (of course Navindra has a > big say in this, but I cannot imagine he is pleased with all the down-time > either) Noone is, but it's also a decision that would have to be collectively made by the editors, and we would have to have a good offer to consider. (We *have* had a few offers from individuals in the past.) > The Trolls are probably not a good idea to make sure noone flames us with > "see, KDE is controlled by QT, they even run the promo site". (yes, I know, > that is ridiculous, but you all know such trolls will appear) Not at all, I think the Trolls would be a perfect option if they accepted/offered to host us. You do know they host www.kde.org, right? These are really the only kind of Trolls we like at the dot, though. ;) > Max (master.kde.org) is probably overloaded as well already.. > > My ADSL line would probably not be sufficient either.. ;-) Well no, if we move, we would have to move to someone who's a KDE friend, is willing to accomodate our needs, and who also has a reliable network. > Any ideas or offers anyone? I don't know what kind of setup is required to > run it, but it shouldn't be too exotic, I guess. Where are all those > companies in the KDE League when you need them? ;-) Nobody has asked them. For all we know, IBM would host us if we asked. I think Trolltech, SuSE, Caldera, Mandrake, IBM are all potential options to investigate. We could even make a PR of the whole thing. Cheers, Navin. _______________________________________________ This message is from the kde-promo mailing list. Visit http://master.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-promo to unsubscribe, set digest on or temporarily stop your subscription.