[volunteergrid2-l] New Members

[Iantcho Vassilev]

Double Christoph.



Regards,
Iantcho

On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 18:17, Christoph Langguth
<christoph at rosenkeller.org>wrote:

> Am 04.04.2012 16:10, schrieb Shawn Willden:
>
> Thanks, Shawn, for... should I say "sorting it out"? I hope noone feels
> sorted out.
>
> I'll just comment on your comments here.
>
>
>  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):  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.
>>
> If the general goal is data security, then availability (uptime) is indeed
> more important than speed. Indeed, from a cheater's perspective, offering
> such a node would not make any sense at all, as our uploads on his node
> will be faster than his downloads. So yes, no problem at all from my side,
> as long as the node remains online.
>
>     - Eugen Leitl (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.
>>
> That aside, Eugen also has a record of knowing what he does (google him).
> A most definite YES from my side.
>
>     - Leon Baum (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.
>>
> Agreed. I'm not opposed to anyone, but a 1GB drive costs almost nothing
> nowadays.
>
>     - Samuel Willcocks (samuel2 at willcockses.com):  Samuel has joined the
>>
>>    mailing list but not introduced himself or expressed his goals or
>> intent.
>>
> dito.
>
>>    - Michael J. O'Donnell (michael_odonnel at acm.org):  Michael so far
>> would
>>
>>    just like to lurk and better understand the grid.
>>
> dito.
>
>>    - Aaron Drew (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.
>>
> ... agreed, and: from what I read so far, Aaron has some experience with
> python, and would indeed be interested to help with tahoe development. I'm
> in favor of giving him full access, trusting that he's not going to bring
> down our particular grid.
>
>     - Eric Anapolsky (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.
>>
>>  yep.
>
>
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