Shlrm.org Blag

It is time for Source Mage’s annual server fundraiser again. We’re raising enough to pay for our dedicated server that hosts our git repositories, and provides the master for our mirrors. We own that server entirely (well actually our current Project Lead does, since Source Mage isn’t a “real” organization) and it’s hosted in a co-location facility with an SLA and all that good stuff. Our costs are only about $100 a month, which isn’t too bad. This fundable should cover it in its entirety and ensure that Source Mage remains up and operational on the internet.

Incidentally, it’s also time for the Project Lead to be reelected, or a new Project Lead voted in. So if you’re a Source Mage developer and, for some strange reason, you’re reading my blog, go make a nomination if you feel like it.

http://shlrm.org/xenstats/ (original scripts here)

Now you can view the stats on who’s doing the most work in my Xen hosts. Yay.

It explodes if there’s a halted vm. It’s not built to handle the new xen 3.0 lifestyle of things. I guess I’ll be learning myself some python. Or I’ll translate it all to bash ;) I could probably do it in bash. Not that python isn’t used for everything in xen anyway. Okay, now I’m rambling.

It’s spam for spam! I didn’t understand Russian and so sent it to Enqlave on #sourcemage on irc.freenode.net. I suspected, however, that it was spam for spam. Stuff traveling from one computer through the “cloud” and to another computer. Had to be email spam. Well, mostly because the only other kinds of spam (pen15, pr0n, stock scams) it wasnt ;)

This was a triumph!
I'm making a note here
HUGE SUCCESS.
It's hard to overstate
my satisfaction.

Go Sourcemagers! I’ve posted a scan of the check I received from fundable to show you that it really did happen and we really did raise the money we thought we did.

To those that donated:

I really appreciate the financial support you’ve chosen to show Source Mage. Without it, it’d be a lot more difficult to make things happen. We’d probably still be on perforce running under the desk of someone’s office. Or we’d have git running there instead. Now, however we’re able to maintain a solid presence on the web on a server that is running our distribution. That’s the true test of a Linux distro. Can it support it’s developers? On the flip side, “Can it’s developers support it?” You’ve all shown that we can.

To those that didn’t donate:

Start saving now! We’ve only got 364 days until the next fundable ;) (Note: I just made that number up, I was making the “364 days until Christmas” joke, so laugh)

Mage Power!

I’m even on there! OMG! I do stuff for SourceMage! Mah name is on teh intarwebs!