OSM's future. Was: Re: [Openstreetmap] OSM Performance is terrible

[Jo Walsh]

dear Steve, i really enjoyed your aside-rant, it made a lot of sense
to me. Thankyou.

On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 12:29:57AM +0000, SteveC wrote:
[ lots about how OSM needs to find new hosting resources ]
> Some bits that can be hosted elsewhere: we can move the wiki to
> wiki.openstr... and svn to svn.open... if people are able to host these,
> get in touch.

Recently Swapnil has been doing a lot of work playing around with
mediawiki setup on http://freemap.in/ . As this is a service that
doesn't need to be tied into the main hosting situation i would feel
pretty happy about offering to take on the wiki onto the freemap
system. (good bandwidth, decent spec, debian amd64, in west coast US,
we can't move it / donate it outright; just to clarify; been here before).

I would definitely want to be able to offer you a service level agreement
of some kind; a guarantee about backup arrangements for the wiki db. 
I know we've been putting off a Governance Discussion, or at least a
rules clarification, about this system, that it would probably make sense
for us to have now. ('we' here is http://wiki.freemap.in/moin.cgi/WhoAreWe )

We can take the svn repos too but the core of the freemap system is
application services, and not code distribution. Whatever makes the
most sense for you in the light of other offers... i would like to get
SVK on there and use the kforge.net code for managing data / metadata
so it could actually work out to be a good fit. As in the followup
thread, a rough idea of the traffic impact would be really helpful).


-jo