I haven't seen an announcement.
The front page of the website is still announcing last month's meeting.
That may be because we can no longer change the website.
This list works.
Maybe https://mastodon.social/@gtalug works, but the latest I see is from
Stewart Russell about last month's meeting.
Now that our list is back (Hallelujah, thank you Hugh and TLUG), I'm
resending this message I originally sent on the 23rd as I haven't yet
found an answer.
On Wed, 23 Dec 2020 at 15:18, Giles Orr <gilesorr(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I just bought two new, identical, external USB hard drives. While
> I've used SMART on and off over the years, I think this is the first
> time I used it immediately on connecting a drive. I'm using
> 'gsmartcontrol', a GUI that I'm liking. In the "Statistics" tab I'm
> seeing, under "Rotating Media Statistics (rev 1)", "Number of
> Mechanical Start Failures" = "1". This is straight out of the box,
> brand new. Where this gets really weird is that both of the drives
> show exactly the same error. These are WD easystore drives. So ...
> is this something I should be worried about?
--
Giles
https://www.gilesorr.com/
gilesorr(a)gmail.com
Folks,
As many of you have noticed, GTALUG's mailings and website were down
since Dec 17th. This was the result of the operations/executive failing
to act in a timely manner after Chris's passing. A payment was missed,
and our server was shutdown by the hosting provider.
Over the holidays an attempt was made to recover the account, but we
came under the mistaken impression that the server had been deleted.
And so we focused our efforts on recovering DNS and establishing a new
server from our regular backups.
We have great thanks to express to Hugh Redelmeier. A steadfast
volunteer and contributor of our community. Uncoordinated with the
board, he reached out our provider and offered to pay the bill.
Successful by-passing our misunderstandings, hotfixing the situation,
and bringing us back on-line. He will be compensated for an out of
pocket costs.
Speaking personally, these are hard times. I as I've returned to help
bridge the gap from Chris's passing, I've found to many functions and
knowledge and pool in to few people and was not being effectively taught
to new contributors.
We failed to get enough visibility into our areas of risk.
We failed to effectively communicate with our community via our other
social media channels about our situation.
I'm personally working with the current board to full on-board our
lastest board members. Establish handbooks for the various functions and
roles.
In the past, the board was just the voting head of a rotating group of
some 10-15 individuals that contributed and attended the executive
meetings. If you want help spread the load, or be involved in how the
group functions. Please see and consider joining the operations mailing
list.
https://gtalug.org/mailing-list/#operations
Meeting Minutes of the Executive meetings can be found here:
https://board.gtalug.org/
Executive / Board Meetings have always, and continue to be open to
attendance from our community.
--
Scott Sullivan
Wearing the Hats of, A Director & Secretary
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GTALUG Announce mailing list
announce(a)gtalug.org
https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/announce
I'm not an insider, so I might get this wrong.
The GTALUG mailing list and web site are hosted on a linode.com machine.
It appears that the service was paid for through Chris Browne.
When he died, it appears that payments stopped and the machine went dark
(December 17 or perhaps a bit later).
I asked linode if I could pay for the node so that it could be restarted.
I told them (correctly) that I had no authority.
They have temporarily started the node. This will last for one billing
cycle (whatever that is) while they consider what to do.
I appologize for my unauthorized intervention but the mailing list is our
lifeblood.
Alex is working on a replacement for the linode node.
