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On 11/09/2011 11:58 PM, Andrew P. wrote:
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Hi, John.<br>
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Glad to get your contact info. I'm not sure if I can find the
notepad I was scribbling on at the DCC, so I'm glad to have
another copy of your contact info.<br>
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If you want some geographically redundant places to deploy your
AVRS server, I'd be happy to host a copy. I already have a
business-grade FiOS Internet line with spare static IP's into my
place, and have been hosting low-budget websites here for about
5 years (Fedora Core Linux, Postgresql, and Tomcat for the
current deployments, but Apache and PHP available). Just bought
replacement batteries for all the old UPS's; ouch! :-) I'm
reasonably happy that my service hasn't gone down even with
Hurricane Irene and the latest nor'easter (OK, the lines were
knocked down during the nor'easter, but service kept running
through them on the ground, and I did have an 8-hour power
outage after Irene, but the batteries kept it up through most of
that).<br>
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That's a very generous offer. The AVRS stuff is lightweight, so I
don't think it would cause issues with anything you have in place.
I'd be interested in exploring having an alternate site that could
be brought online in the event of failure here in Atlanta.<br>
Let me try to get the code into a more "packaged" and deployable
form, with a basic installer, and we'll go from there.<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Regarding licensing, I've been considering the
Lesser GPL (LGPL) for my own stuff; third-party libraries I'm
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Man, I'm right there with Georg in saying "whew...". I was afraid
you were going to go the closed source route, too, and the LGPL
decision is music to my ears. There are some great open-source,
amateur radio software oriented communities out there (hamlib, aprx,
the ax25 stack, xastir), and there's no reason we can't build one
around the code you're working on.<br>
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Keep us updated!<br>
<br>
John Gorkos<br>
AB0OO<br>
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