Re: [Balloon] Balloonboard.org domain and website

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Author: Toby Churchill
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To: Balloon
Subject: Re: [Balloon] Balloonboard.org domain and website
I for one don't need it.

Toby Churchill
20 Panton Street
CAMBRIDGE, CB2 1HP
www.tobychurchill.info


On 3 July 2013 13:07, Wookey <> wrote:

> The balloonboard.org domain expired last week and Aleph One who have
> sponsored it, and the website hosting, since we started didn't
> particularly feel like paying to renew it, given the mostly-defunct
> nature of the project at this stage.
>
> So I've paid for two more years (and thus am now in control of the
> domain), and Laurie has kindly agreed to keep hosting the website for
> the time being until someone else volunteers, or the
> space/memory/bandwidth usage on the server become problematic.
>
> So, in the medium term does any one care enough to keep this project
> on line for current or historical interest? I see that the build
> system has been updated to cover a couple of the boards that more
> successfully filled the space balloon was aimed at (beaglebone black
> and rPi) so it is still being used.
>
> The lart website is still on the net, a good 15 years after it was
> relevant. I'd like to think that people would be able to find balloon
> info in 10 years time too if they needed it (for lightwriter
> maintenance or retro-computing parties).
>
> At some point I plan to move my stuff off Aleph One's server and am
> happy to take the balloon stuff with me, but I don't know when I'll
> actually get my finger out and do that.
>
> The existing site is a smidge under 4G of stuff, moinmoin-based with a
> mailman list, and lurker indexing.
>
> Wookey
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