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28Oct2007ConfSummaryFrom techmeet
Summary of Techmeet Conference Sunday 28th October 2007IntroductionsPlease read the logs for people's introductions. Groups presentations
Legal - the legal questions resulting from the seizure of the original ahimsa box (during the ESF in 2004) ended up basically unresolved. i was not heavily involved in the legal support effort so i can't comment in detail, but from what i understand we never did figure out exactly what happened, or definitively prove the chain of events. - more recently we have had a bunch of legal threats related to specific postings. one problem we have is that libel law in the UK is heavily stacked in the favour of the complainant, and is extremely easy to use as a weapon of privilege as a result. basically, UK law says that the publisher needs to prove that there was no libel (i.e. we are guilty until proven innocent). we have mostly been able to avoid any serious problems resulting from legal threats by moving content to non-uk mirror servers, or sometimes by pulling the article in question and then writing a carefully-worded feature article about the issue (see http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/10/382951.html for example). Servers - currently we are running our mir publish server on the box "traven", located in the riseup colo. traven has disk-access problems, mostly related to a high iowait, which imposes artificial limits on its capacity. since we had about 5000 quid in the bank for the purposes of server purchases, in june of 2006 i made a proposal to buy a second box that we could use to move the sites off traven, fix traven up, and then move the uk site back on to the new box, leaving the new box as additional capacity for mir sites. due to a series of process-related difficulties, this plan is *still* underway. currently the parts for it have been purchased and are waiting for assembly and installation. the box will go into a colo in manchester. - we are currently running 3 mirrors of the uk site, in different jurisdictions - we have the money to purchase another server (besides the one that is currently waiting for assembly) but the process of getting the first one has been so painful that we haven't even got there yet. having said that, if people can highlight what they think we should spend 2500 pounds on, maybe we can put together some kind of proposal to spend this money. Agenda Itens Discussed1- proposal - additional techmeet meetingOne more techmeet conference to take place next sunday, November 4th, at the same time the other conference happenned (11am SF time). Where we will present organized information to people and we will decide what to do with the things raised when we discussed 'next steps' topic. Also is where the indymedia cms discussion will take place. A summary for this discussion will be organized as well. Other meetings will take place this week for preparation to the CMS discussion. A short summary of what happen this week will be done so new people can understand what is going on. 2- proposal - PR-campaign for this week (includes techmeet-related meetings)Means do as much as promotion we can do this week, to guarantee the most participation possible. 3- discussion about next stepsMost of the discussion was around what we will discuss for next conference. Next steps working groups:
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