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UK Tech

This site collects tech documentation and projects, see also the IMC UK Tech email list.

IRC Meetings

upcoming

past

• MirServerMeeting20041203
• UK IRC meeting: UkIrcMtg20040418
• UK Tech IRC meeting: UkIrcMtg20032004 | UkIrcMtg20032004Notes

Servers and hosting

Discussion about where to host a new UK publishing server and what kit to get:

• UkIrcRegisterHowTo -- how to register somebody so they auto-op in IRC
• UkHostingComparisons -- where to host the server
• UkCrypto -- encryption ideas for the server
• UkServerProcess -- managing the server
• UkHardwareComparisons -- see also the UkCrypto#Hardware ideas and UkRiseupServer#Hardware
• UkDatabaseServerBreakdown -- money
• UkRiseupServer -- proposal to colocate a server with the Seattle Community Colocation Project
  • TravenInfo - new server info
  • TravenConfig - server configuration wiki page
  • TravenSetUp - working page for server set-up (and record of how we did it)

Mir Resources

www.indymedia.org.uk is run using Mir, the templates for the site are hosted on Codecoop.

mir.indymedia.org is a dedicated website to develop and implement the MIR code. Mir coders have their own mailing list and hang out on irc.indymedia.org, #mir.

• UkMaintenance - a "manual" for maintenance of the imc uk website and e-mail lists.
• UkMirMaintenanceAdvanced
• UkMirRegionalPagesSetupHOWTO
• UkMirRegionalPublishPageHOWTO
• UkMirStaticPageHOWTO
• UkMirUkTopic
• UkMirFtpUploads - somewhere to document the setting up of FTP uploads

New regional site IMC UK set up

If you want to set up a new region on the site see the UkDevMirSites page which documents how to create a new regional site (experienced Linux users see also UkDev2 for the docs for a install of a dev site) on the UkDevServer. Once the templates for your region are working OK on the development server they can be deployed on the production server. See also UkMirRegionalPagesSetupHOWTO.

Working Document: Making the UK topic for the newswire, features and startpage UkMirUkTopic

Dev server

Info about the UK Mir development server, pulp, can be found here: UkDevServer, see also: UkDevMirSites

CVS Repository for UK site and regions

All the configuration files and templates for the UK Mir setup are in CVS on codecoop: http://codecoop.org/projects/imc-uk/

Instructions for using codecoop: UkDevMirSites#Using_a_codecoop_account

A proposed policy for branching this CVS repository is here: UkTechCVSPolicy.

Active to Mir migration

The best point to start with is probably init's excellent pdf of the mir file structure on http://mir.indymedia.org/media/2003/02/234.pdf. Also see UkMaintenance, especially:

• UkMirRegionalPagesSetupHOWTO (What files to change for your regional UK IMC)
• UkMirCvsWorkflowHOWTO (Details of CVS - setup and workflow)
• UkMirLearningCurve (All the steps taken to move to MIR)
• UkMirConfig
• UkMirToDo -- quite a lot of stuff that needs fixing, to be moved to the codecoop.org tracker
• The UkPublishPage is somewhere to edit the text for the publish page and there is a seperate page to discuss the ImcUkCopyleft stuff.
• UkMirRss - RSS implementationand wishlist
• UkLanguages - somewhere to consider i18n and multiple languages for the site
• UkKosmos - routine tasks on kosmos and how to do them

Imc UK's move from UkActiveToMir is documented on UkMovingToMir, for tech details see UkActiveToMirTechHowTo.

Encryption

Somewhere to explore encryption ideas: UkCrypto

DNS

There are several UK domain names, indymedia.org.uk, indymedia.co.uk and uk.indymedia.org we should document how this is set up on a UkDns page.

Email

There is a UkEmail page where the @indymedia.org.uk aliases are being sorted out.

Mirrors

How to set up a mirror: UkMirror

Standards and Resources

• UkWebDesignStandards
• UkDesign

Political/Tech Debates

• ImcUkTechSheffield
• UkNetworkMeetings3
• ImcUkCopyleft
• JavaFreedomAndImcUk
• UkLegalConstitution
• AhimsaUkLegal

Projects

• UkImcEsf ESF 2004 planning

Equipment

• ImcUkMp3Recorders / Looking at good quality audio devices that (should) run on linux

Old Stuff

• UkArchiveTechActive / contains the old active tech stuff
• UkMirWebDocs / the static documents (ed guidelines, mission statement etc as implemented in June 03)
• UkMovingToMir / collection of everything.

Proposal 20 May 03: transfer stuff from UkMirTimeline and UkMirDesign to ImcUkTech? And add a sentence that boundaries between techs and non techs are blurred. And link the entire UkMovingToMir site to the archive?

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-- GarconDuMonde - 12 Feb 2005 - added TravenConfig -- GarconDuMonde - 05 Dec 2004 - added servers/hosting section
Added link to UkIrcMtg20040418 -- SevenR - 28 Mar 2004
-- AndiE - 25 Mar 2003
Added link to UkMirWebDocs -- IonNec - 09 Apr 2003
Added proposal -- IonNec - 20 May 2003
moved active stuff to archive, added new blurb -- IonNec - 23 Jun 2003
-- IonNec - 31 Oct 2003 added rss, UkMaintenance, Mir-blurb.
-- GarconDuMonde - 07 Mar 2005 - traven info
-- YosSarian - 17 May 2005 - added link about IRC registration
-- DaMish - 22 Jan 2006 - added link for regional publish page

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