Asymmetric Clustering... Distributed Name Space... Global Sign-on... Guerrilla Networking... Open Source Technology... Do these words make your heart beat faster and your breath go shallow? If so then perhaps you should become involved with Hangar 18. We are a tit-for-tat group of computer hobbyist of a wide range of skills intent on building the next computing infra-structure using Open Source technology. We don't focus on any one form of technology but instead focus on real world applications in grid or large scale distributed computing. Time: May 8, 2003 Every Thursday, excluding national holidays 7:00 - 9:00 pm (or later) http://open-forge.org Location: Buffet Palace, N. Lamar @ I-35 @ Anderson. In the parking lot in front of Hobby Lobby. The location varies from week to week so be sure to check with an active Hangar 18 member (or join the mailing list!) for more information. Identification: We'll be the group with the Plan 9 OS box on the table...;) As some of you who come to the weekly meetings will be aware there has been a cash flow issue regarding the T1 and extending projects through the Open Forge domain. Well it finally came to a head after nearly 18 months of trying to find a way around the issue. Because of cash flow and an increasingly unstable work environment with respect to the other sponsors of the T1 feed it will be phased out over the summer. This does not mean any immediate changes for at least the next 4-6 weeks. It does mean we will lose the T1 and possibly the Phantoms's Mansion site. We will continue to operate the SSZ site and at the appropriate time the resources hosted through Open Forge will be migrated to SSZ. One of the first two things I need to do is up my bandwidth from the current ISDN to a SDSL (~384kb/s both ways v the current 128kb/s total). One nice thing about this transfer is my monthly net feed bill will go down by about $50. So I'm not complaining about that. It also means that I'll take over the operation of the DNS so we will once again have full support for alternate domain names (ie .ssz, .cpunks, etc.). The other aspect will be the tranfer of all the current services (eg mailing lists) over to SSZ. In the interim I'll be working to add new services (eg IRC) on the SSZ site since its clear no such work will happen on Open Forge. We will give at least a couple of weeks notice prior to the change so hopefully it won't take anyone by too big a surprise. Rob and I had been in the proces of upgrading the Open Forge Hangar 18 page. We will continue with that effort but will mirror all material on SSZ so that when Open Forge goes down the transition should be very smooth. This will -not- effect any services or projects other than the basic services on Open Forge. The OAON, 802.11a/b, 802.16, 900MHz repeater, Plan 9 Auth services & namespace, development services (Anyone using Cons currently?), Squeak VRML, etc. will -not- suffer as a result. Further, this will -not- effect the commercial Open Source technology development efforts planned via In Silica other than perhaps allowing us to move forward on some specific projects -earlier- than we had currently planned. -- ____________________________________________________________________ We are all interested in the future for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives. Criswell, "Plan 9 from Outer Space" ravage@ssz.com jchoate@open-forge.org www.ssz.com www.open-forge.org --------------------------------------------------------------------