[volunteergrid2-l] Slashdot post

[Shawn Willden]

There's a slashdot article this morning about backup tools and techniques.
 I posted about VG2.  My post was an early response to the article, and I
expect it will get modded up to a 5 and be fairly near the top of the
comments, so a lot of people will probably read it.

Assuming we're about to get a flood of list member applications, asking to
become grid member applications, we should probably decide how we're going
to handle it.

IMO, our "policy" limit of 20 nodes (originally suggested by Zooko) is too
low.  In terms of the technology, there's no reason our grid couldn't grow
to 100 nodes or larger.  The limit is the social aspect... at present,
maintaining a well-functioning grid requires that the members of the grid
exercise some honor and integrity, abiding by their commitments to keep
their nodes up and running, and to consume grid storage fairly.  So far,
that hasn't been a problem as far as I can tell, and I don't see any reason
why we can't go beyond 20 members... but I do think we'll need to vet them
pretty carefully.

To date, we haven't done much.  We've just asked people to make an e-mail
commitment to abide by the policies and called it good.  But we've also had
members join in ones and twos, and I wouldn't be surprised if the slashdot
post gets us 10 or more new people wishing to join.  Perhaps even more than
that.

So, before we allow these people to join, any suggestions as to how we can
check up on them?


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Shawn
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