[volunteergrid2-l] New Members

[Brad Rupp]

Shawn,

I agree with all that you have said.

I am not sure if anyone has pointed to the new members to our list of 
policies.  I have not read your slash dot article yet.  Maybe you did 
there.  Anyway, the following link points to the VG2 policies:

http://www.bigpig.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/VolunteerGrid2Policies

I do think the new members should read over these and let us know if 
they have any issues.  If nothing is heard then we assume they are good 
with them.

Thanks,

Brad

On 4/4/2012 8:10 AM, Shawn Willden wrote:
> Here's a list of the recently-joined list members (in no particular
> order) who are applying to join the grid, and my proposal for each of
> them.  If I missed anyone, please speak up!  For current grid members,
> let me know if you disagree with my proposals, otherwise, I'm going to
> act on them :-)
>
>   * Benjamin (masterme120 at gmail.com <mailto:masterme120 at gmail.com>):
>       Benjamin would like to join the grid and has committed to
>     maintaining high uptime and providing 1 TB of disk, but has limited
>     upstream bandwidth.  I propose to admit him, with the reservation
>     that if his bandwidth turns out to be problematic we may have to ask
>     him to leave again.
>   * Eugen Leitl (eugen at leitl.org <mailto:eugen at leitl.org>):  Eugen would
>     like to join the grid and has offered two nodes, both ~1TB, one in a
>     data center and on a very fast network connection and the other on
>     his (decent) home connection.  He has also committed to maintaining
>     high uptime.  I propose to admit him.
>   * Leon Baum (leonbaum2 at gmail.com <mailto:leonbaum2 at gmail.com>):  Leon
>     would like to join the grid and can manage the uptime requirement
>     but isn't presently able to provide more than 320 GB.  I propose to
>     decline him -- but with encouragement to come back when he can
>     provide 500+ GB.
>   * Samuel Willcocks (samuel2 at willcockses.com
>     <mailto:samuel2 at willcockses.com>):  Samuel has joined the mailing
>     list but not introduced himself or expressed his goals or intent.
>   * Michael J. O'Donnell (michael_odonnel at acm.org
>     <mailto:michael_odonnel at acm.org>):  Michael so far would just like
>     to lurk and better understand the grid.
>   * Aaron Drew (aarond10 at gmail.com <mailto:aarond10 at gmail.com>):  Aaron
>     hasn't really introduced himself on this mailing list, but did on
>     tahoe-dev.  He can contribute 500 GB and is willing to meet the
>     uptime requirements.  I propose to admit him, with the same caveat
>     as Benjamin.
>   * Eric Anapolsky (erpo41 at gmail.com <mailto:erpo41 at gmail.com>):  Eric
>     would like to join the grid and will offer a node with 800 GB of
>     RAID6 storage on a reasonable network connection.  I propose to
>     admit him.
>
> Comments?  I should also remind everyone that we reserve the right to
> exclude from the grid anyone whose node causes problems of any sort
> (though we'll try to troubleshoot and fix them, first -- we want nodes!).
>
> Also, for all of the newcomers, please keep in mind that in joining the
> grid you also commit to use it "fairly", meaning that you don't consume
> any more storage than you provide, and that uploading 1GB of data
> typically consumes significantly more than 1GB of storage.  You need to
> figure out the expansion factor based on your node parameters and take
> it into account.
>
> On the plus side, as we get more nodes, it becomes feasible to set
> encoding parameters with a smaller expansion factor while still
> maintaining high reliability.  If you're interested in the math, see my
> Tahoe loss modeling paper (incomplete, but still useful) at
> http://goo.gl/YBStU.  When we get the new nodes added and see where
> we're at, I'll suggest some good settings.
>
> Oh, and welcome!
>
> --
> Shawn
>
>
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