Summary of Meeting with Organiclea, 29 March 2003
At the Hornbeam Environmental Centre, 458 Hoe Street, London E17 9AH
5.00 p.m.
About six members of
Organiclea, the
Forest Recycling Project and the
Hornbeam Environmental Centre were present.
BenjaminGeer represented
SocialTools.
Summary by
BenjaminGeer:
I briefly explained the origins and purpose of Open Organizations and
SocialTools, what we're doing and what we'd like to do. Those present were very interested in:
- Being able to use Wiki and mailing lists to share information easily and quickly, without being dependent on computer experts to update web pages
- Avoiding dependencies on the corporate machine
- Being able to offer similar services to other groups like themselves
- Being part of a network of mutually supporting hosting services, e.g. for failover
I explained that we wanted to encourage groups to run their own servers in the
SocialTools network, in order to keep our own workload manageable, and to spread technical knowledge as widely as possible.
I offered to provide training and advice to get them started. Dave Whiting of Organiclea volunteered to be my apprentice for the project, in order to learn to set up and maintain a Debian system with mailing lists and Wiki, on an ADSL line.
Organiclea currently have £1000 that they're ready to spend on this project, and can look into getting more funding for it. Alex from the Hornbeam Centre offered to donate a computer for use as a server. Brian from the Forest Recycling Project, who has contacts at
Create UK, said he might be able to help us get more free or cheap recycled hardware.
We agreed that Alex would bring her computer to the centre this week, and that Dave and I would have a look at it on Saturday 5 April, and try to come up with a budget within the following two weeks or so.
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