[Qemu-devel] Temporary page for the FreeOsZoo project

[Qemu-devel] Temporary page for the FreeOsZoo project

[Jean-Michel POURE]

Dear Stefano and friends,

Just a quick note that I designed a very temporary web page
for the FreeOsZoo project:

http://www.poure.com/qemu

(The site is hosted on a dedicated computer in Paris on a 100Mbs fast link. I 
hope that the link is fast enough for serving images, but I am not very sure, 
as it is my first contract with this Internet provider. Also, when the 
project gets mature, there may be a huge demand for Qemu images, typically 
thousands of downloads.

Therefore, I think that Bittorent may be a solution in the future.)

Also, the new SuSE 9.1 image is curently uploading.

The SuSE image really rocks as it provides by defaut configuration screens 
running on startup. Then the installer connects to mirrors and is able to 
install all additionnal software from FTP or HTTP link.

The SuSE 9.1 gives the Qemu user the look-and-feel of a real installer. I am a 
Debian fan, but I think SuSE suits rather well the needs of first-time users.

Any comments welcome.

Hackers from Qemu, keep on the good work!

Kindest regards,
Jean-Michel

Re: [Qemu-devel] Temporary page for the FreeOsZoo project

[Renzo Davoli]

On Mon, Jun 28, 2004 at 11:17:34PM +0200, Jean-Michel POURE wrote:
> Dear Stefano and friends,

Wonderful.
I would like to mirror the whole web site between University of
Bologna and your site and any other who is really and sincerely interested
in joining this project and give bandwidth for it

We have 100Mbps in Bologna IPv4 + 155 Mbps IPv6 native.

Just a minor note on the text: it is gathering not only students at the
University of Bologna but also me... I would like to be a students, (i'd
be younger!) unfortunately I teach there.
I would be grateful if you could kindly  put somewhere a note 
(you can use the smallest font) saying that the idea of OSZoo was 
started by me ;-) Just a tiny credit.

Thank you.
		renzo

Re: [Qemu-devel] Temporary page for the FreeOsZoo project

[Jean-Michel POURE]

Dear Renzo,

> Wonderful.
> I would like to mirror the whole web site between University of
> Bologna and your site and any other who is really and sincerely interested
> in joining this project and give bandwidth for it. We have 100Mbps in
> > Bologna IPv4 + 155 Mbps IPv6 native. 

This is marvelous bandwidth. The University of Bolognia ranks in the first 
universities in the world, which will be of great help for Qemu reputation.

This is a great idea. Do you think you could buy the "freeoszoo.org" domain 
name in the name of University of Bolognia and point it to the University 
main site? Otherwise, I can buy the domain myself.

From a technical point of view, the main site at Bolognia University will need 
a recent PHP version with Gettext support. In the next days, I plan to 
migrate the web page to PHP, extract the text and ask the 38 translators of 
pgAdmin III project (http://www.pgadmin.org) to join the translation effort.

Also, what about opening accounts on www.poure.com/qemu and providing you with 
SSH / CVS access to share resources. I don't have time to do it today, but 
will do it in the next days.

Also, Raphaël Enrici <blacknoz@club-internet.fr> from pgAdmin project would 
like to the FreeOSZoo. We are used to working in team for pgAdmin and 
PostgreSQL. Don't hesitate to CC him when you write me. We are both very 
nices chaps...

Basically speaking, we like to organise in very small hacker teams, and will 
probably focus (at first) on release images, installer and translations.

> Just a minor note on the text: it is gathering not only students at the
> University of Bologna but also me... I would like to be a students, (i'd
> be younger!) unfortunately I teach there.

No problem, I though you were a student, my fault!

I do not intend to take credit. What about this new version: "FreeOSZoo is a 
project from Università di Bologna initiated by Renzo Davoli, companies and 
individuals in order to foster Free Software". Take a look at the temporary 
web page.

Also, we will need to modify the legal disclaimer called agreement.txt 
available from the download section.

Does it suit you?

Kindest regards,
Jean-Michel Pouré

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Re: [Qemu-devel] Temporary page for the FreeOsZoo project

[Renzo Davoli]

I am sorry for the late answer.
I am in Leeds (UK) for a conference, so I am reading my mail less
frequently than ususal.
> This is marvelous bandwidth. The University of Bolognia ranks in the first 
> universities in the world, which will be of great help for Qemu reputation.
UNiversity of Bologna is quite large (more than 100,000 students) and
our CS Department is quite active (we manage one of the node of the national
experimantal IPv6 backbone )
> 
> This is a great idea. Do you think you could buy the "freeoszoo.org" domain 
> name in the name of University of Bolognia and point it to the University 
> main site? Otherwise, I can buy the domain myself.
> 
It is a good idea, I'll do that as soon as I return home.
> From a technical point of view, the main site at Bolognia University will need 
> a recent PHP version with Gettext support. In the next days, I plan to 
> migrate the web page to PHP, extract the text and ask the 38 translators of 
> pgAdmin III project (http://www.pgadmin.org) to join the translation effort.
For sure it is a good idea. I'll ask Stefano who is in charge of
organization of OSZoo in Bologna.
> 
> Also, what about opening accounts on www.poure.com/qemu and providing you with 
> SSH / CVS access to share resources. I don't have time to do it today, but 
> will do it in the next days.
Wonderful.
> 
> Also, Rapha?l Enrici <blacknoz@club-internet.fr> from pgAdmin project would 
> like to the FreeOSZoo. We are used to working in team for pgAdmin and 
> PostgreSQL. Don't hesitate to CC him when you write me. We are both very 
> nices chaps...
This is an Open Source Open Project. It is free software and people is
free to join provided the interest about the goal.
> 
> Basically speaking, we like to organise in very small hacker teams, and will 
> probably focus (at first) on release images, installer and translations.
> 
> > Just a minor note on the text: it is gathering not only students at the
> > University of Bologna but also me... I would like to be a students, (i'd
> > be younger!) unfortunately I teach there.
> 
> No problem, I though you were a student, my fault!
No fault at all. Interested students and professsors belong to the same
category of studiants so can be seen in the same way on the net.
I am honored for this misunderstanding!
> 
> I do not intend to take credit. What about this new version: "FreeOSZoo is a 
> project from Universit? di Bologna initiated by Renzo Davoli, companies and 
> individuals in order to foster Free Software". Take a look at the temporary 
> web page.
> 
> Also, we will need to modify the legal disclaimer called agreement.txt 
> available from the download section.
I feel it is a standard reasonable disclaimer.
Given that all the mirror site will give software to the end user I feel
that should be co-signed by all the mirrors' owners.
> 
> Does it suit you?
I think it is okay.
> 
> Kindest regards,
It is a pleasure to cooperate with you.
Long life to the OSzoo project.

ciao
	renzo