Branko Collin wrote:
I think the person responsible for server management at DP is the much overworked Pauline/Pourlean, so I am forwarding the following to her per this reply.
Thanks. I haven't been keeping up with mailing lists at all recently.
On 20 Apr 2005, at 22:17, Greg Newby wrote:
I'm posting here, in case discussion has stalled or this message didn't get to the right person previously: We're perpetually ready to acquire additional hardware for DP.
I can also offer lots of off-site networked storage for backups, "holding" items, etc., etc. There have been numerous short discussions about this, but it sounds like most DP folks are busy doing other things, and haven't had cycles to work on expanding infrastructure. So, in case this helps, I want to reiterate that funding for DP's hardware/network/backups/storage infrastructure is available.
I suspect my last email to Greg went west, so I'll resend privately. As to the issue of extra disk space... I've said a few times on the DP Forums that after developers the thing which DP lacks most is PPers, i.e. the people who take the proofed text & turn it into ebooks. Adding extra disk space will solve the problem in the medium term, but in the end the PP mountain will just grow higher, until we can match the number of posted projects to the number proofed. I am really hoping that the upcoming site upgrade will help with this problem as the extra formatting rounds & open smooth reading pool will hopefully make life much easier for PPers. If you're not a developer, at the moment the best thing you can do for DP is to PP or PPV, so we can get projects posted to PG & into the archive (i.e. off the production server). Here's a more detailed post on how people can help - the numbers have changed since November & we did some recoding of how images are handled to recover some disk space - but essentially the same issue remains: http://www.pgdp.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=96304#96304 Thanks, P -- Help digitise public domain books: Distributed Proofreaders: http://www.pgdp.net "Preserving history one page at a time." Set free dead-tree books: http://bookcrossing.com/referral/servalan