Re: FYI: solid.community pod shutting down

On Sat, 10 Oct 2020 at 23:24, Bart Hanssens (BOSA) <
bart.hanssens@bosa.fgov.be> wrote:

> Dear Melvin,
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> Thank you for all the time and effort you, the admins and other people put
> into running the community pod !
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> As you mentioned, keeping it up and running for that long is no small feat…
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Thanks for the kind words, much appreciated


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> When you say a server would be needed, what would be the requirements for
> this machine ?
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Let me preface by saying there first also need to be full buy in to the
idea, and consensus / support.

Depending on what solution was required ie download data only / reclaim old
accounts / run full pod / start fresh.

But my guess is that the requirements would be something like a box running
ubuntu 20.04, 4GB RAM, 100GB storage

We could work with alot less, but more is better :)

On a hoster like scaleway I'd say that would come to about 10-20 euro per
month.  The bare minimum I think would be 5eur / month.


> And/or would a crowd-funding be an option ?
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Possibly, but I dont know how the collection would work


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> Best regards and wishing you a speedy and full recovery,
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Thanks much! :)


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> Bart Hanssens
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> *From:* Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com>
> *Sent:* zaterdag 10 oktober 2020 11:27
> *To:* public-solid <public-solid@w3.org>
> *Subject:* FYI: solid.community pod shutting down
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> Hi All
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> After a quarter of a decade the decision was made to shut down the
> community pod.  There were a number of reasons for this, but the most
> urgent of which was due to health issues related to the Covid-19 pandemic
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> Of all the options available to me, shutting down was the least bad.
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> It was quite difficult to run as a grassroots project given that we didnt
> have any funding, didnt have our own servers, relied on others for source
> code, and so on.
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> What started as my experiment to allow users to try out node solid server,
> took on a life of its own.  If you consider that Google Plus with all their
> resources lasted about 2000 days, and we, as a pod, lasted almost 1000,
> that's quite amazing really.
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> I am sorry that it happened so quickly, I just felt there were limited
> options.  There was a lot of work behind the scenes.  Given the rapid
> escalation of the pandemic, something had to give.
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> While the data is kept safe and backed up, I appreciate it is disruptive
> to have to change a WebID that you've invested time in. I have had to do
> this myself and I know how painful it can be.
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> If there was some way for users to reclaim their webid or accounts, and it
> was easy to run.  I'd be open to doing that, perhaps after the peak of
> Covid-19 passes.  It would require a server tho, which we dont have at the
> moment.
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> I'd like to thank everyone that took part in our journey, especially our
> amazing admins.  All of whom worked skillfully and tirelessly for the
> community, sometimes for years, without ever once being paid.
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> Keep safe, and hopefully we'll see each other safe and healthy after the
> Covid-19 crisis has peaked
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> Best
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> Melvin
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