[Noisebridge-discuss] "Wikileaks is overloaded by global interest"

[Ani Niow]

Sounds like we may have our first real use of Noisecloud:
https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Noisecloud

+1 on this effort as well.



-Ani




2009/12/23 Christie Dudley <longobord at gmail.com>

> So this is probably a message we're getting because (as they tweeted 12
> hours ago) they're still down because of maintenance work by their upstream
> provider.  However, when looking over the page, I was noticing that they're
> soliciting help from the community.  Something specifically caught my eye:
>
> "If you can provide rackspace, power and an uplink, or a dedicated server
> or storage space, for at least 12 months, or software development work for
> WikiLeaks, please write to wl-supporters at sunshinepress.org"
>
> It strikes me that Noisebridge has such resources at our disposal.  I think
> it would be particularly awesome to help out this organization in achieving
> their important mission.  They assure potential volunteers that "Servers
> come trouble-free and legally fortified, software is uniquely challenging.",
> so concerns about liability are pretty much addressed.
>
> (Although that page needs some serious proofreading, particularly in the
> listing of their sponsors, it would be really really awesome to get our name
> up there too.)
>
> What are the people who manage the donated space, etc. think of this?
>  Would we want to get a software group to see if we can help with that end
> of things too?
>
> Christie
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> the hill is stunning. Where would you choose to live?
>
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