[H-ADMIN] Linux Home Server HOWTO and HUMBUG

[matheist76 at westnet.com.au]

Sorry about the post to the admin list. It was a reflex action 
on my part. That being said I know that only the Exec and a 
couple of the sys admins are on the list so it's just the people 
that we do need to talk to about this are the only ones who would 
be sent the email.

I, personally, think it's a very good idea. I can see how this 
would benifit HUMBUG and you. I would want to know what other
members of the Exec and the Sys Admin team feel before doing it. 
Since a number of us will be a the Xmas dinner tomorrow I was
going to discuss it there.

Many thanks for your thoughts and the work that you have put into 
the pages. They are great.

Matt. 

----- Original Message -----
From: "Miles Brennan" <miles at brennan.id.au>
To: "matt" <matheist76 at westnet.com.au>
Cc: "Humbug Admin" <admin at lists.humbug.org.au>, "Clinton Roy" <secretary at humbug.org.au>, "Russell Stuart" <russell-humbug at stuart.id.au>, "Miles Brennan - Home" <miles at brennan.id.au>
Sent: Thursday, 17 December, 2009 7:56:23 AM GMT +10:00 Brisbane
Subject: Re: Fwd: Linux Home Server HOWTO and HUMBUG

Thanks for the reply Matt,

I didn't want to post this type of query / request directly to one of 
the lists, without running through exec group so they're aware of it; 
particularly as I'm asking HUMBUG to take an active custodial interest 
in the HOWTO.

I see plenty of benefit for HUMBUG if this is picked up...  an active 
website, printing of a mini admin book, assistive guide to hand out at 
install fests, can be updated as project work by more IT uni students 
(if possible), etc....

If you believe this is a worthy project, let me know and I will add it 
to one of the lists for discussion.

Regards,
Miles Brennan
0434 947 917


On 16/12/2009 8:48 PM, matt wrote:
> Sounds interesting. I have just been to the page to check it out
> http://brennan.id.au/ . The page looks good and well written (I had a
> very quick look) so I would be happy to agree with this proposal.
>
> Matt
>
> On Wed, 2009-12-16 at 19:23 +1000, Miles Brennan wrote:
>    
>> Dear HUMBUG,
>>
>> Just wondering if the committee has had time to discuss / evaluate my
>> attached email; as I have not yet had a response.
>>
>> Sorry for not posting to the lists, I thought you'd like the
>> opportunity to discuss as an exec first.
>>
>> If you want this posted to one of the lists instead, please advise.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Miles Brennan
>> 0434 947 917
>>
>> -------- Original Message --------
>>                            Subject:
>> Linux Home Server HOWTO and HUMBUG
>>                               Date:
>> Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:59:21 +1000
>>                               From:
>> Miles Brennan<miles at brennan.id.au>
>>                                 To:
>> secretary at humbug.org.au
>>                                 CC:
>> Miles Brennan - Home
>> <miles at brennan.id.au>
>>
>>
>> Hi Sec,
>>
>> I'm the author of the Linux Home Server HOWTO, which I initially wrote
>> about 5 years ago as project work on my Masters with Mark Looi over at QUT.
>>
>> Its an extensive amount of technical documentation (20 Chapters)
>> targeted at new users who want to set up their own servers at home, and
>> covers most of the server based daemons (apache, samba, squid, iptables,
>> nfs v3+4, ntp, ftp, sshd, sql, ldap etc...)
>>
>> Initially based and documented around Fedora Core 3, it went through a
>> revision to FC5 in Nov 2004. However, as the documentation was based at
>> the script level, then it worked well for many other distros (no GUI
>> stuff at all).
>>
>> The reason for this email is maintenance, I simply don't have time. I
>> also wanted to participate more in HUMBUG, but the most I got to was
>> subscribing to these email lists and reading them when they come through
>> - sad isn't it... !
>>
>> What I'd like to put forward to the HUMBUG community, is the donation of
>> the complete HOWTO document, if the organisation is in a position to
>> provide active custodianship - I'll change licensing to suit the
>> requirements.
>>
>> The HOWTO is still very active and receives a constant flow of visitors
>> from all round the world, this might be a good opportunity for HUMBUG to
>> benefit, particularly for membership drive and install-fests etc...
>>
>> November's awstats are:
>>      Unique Visitors         22926
>>      Numb of Visits          28046
>>      Pages                   39632
>>      Hits                   120872
>>      Bandwidth              1.79GB
>>
>> (Not bad for 20 pages of text).
>>
>> The site rates very high with most of the search engines, I.e. linux +
>> server normally results in page 1 display.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Miles Brennan
>>      
>
>