What Happened to the Active Sydney website?
Posted July 1st, 2008 by Anonymous
Please, can anyone who reads this let us all know about why the Active Sydney website went offline?
(It used to be at: http://www.active.org.au/sydney/)
What happened to cause its demise or mothballing?
Are there any plans to start it up again?
Is there any other site planned that will play a similar role?
Thanks if you can help!
- 316 reads
Money
As far as I know there was no money to pay for the server.
Re: What Happened to the Active Sydney website?
It doesnt take great time, money or effort to run these things. Its a shame more ppl dont step up to the plate.
Re: What Happened to the Active Sydney website?
People at Active could Amalgamate with indymedia after all there have been close ties in the past, there is a Upcoming Events listing at indymedia like there was at Active.
burnout
burnout. Nobody is left to maintain the site.Simply. These things don't run themselves. In fact, sydney indymedia is on the cusp of going under. We need more techs and more editorial admins.
Re: burnout
I could maintain sydney indymedia, I assume the software is open source I will need a copy of it,
Anthony email mantra@spraci.zzn.com
Re: burnout
Join the mailing list and introduce yourself. We need people who can be part of the collective and interact with others.
http://lists.indymedia.org.au/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/imc-sydney
Re: burnout
Hi Anthony! Do we know you? Introduce yourself and tell us your interests and background. At present I am spending some 2 hours per day checking for spam, removing uppercase and so on - it is pretty full-on - and that's about the only job I know how to do. So some help would be great.
Re: burnout
I used to be a friend of Predator a long time ago, I met Hugh once, andy gave me a passcode to a linux box at the warehouse at Lord st a very long time ago, I am 38 years old.
Re: burnout
Well, if you send an email here:
http://lists.indymedia.org.au/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/imc-sydney
you will probably be approved as a moderator.
Cripes
2 hours a day on spam!
Dude, seriously, hook the
system up to Akismet (Be sure to strip out the IP addresses, the system
works fine with 127.0.0.1 IPs). That thing TENDS to hit our spam almost
perfectly in Perth Indy.
Almost.
Its possibly a
little over-sensitive (It gets shitty about too many URLs) but in
general most people understand whats going on.
But
seriously, its been really liberating for the perth indy team, and lets
us concentrate on the radio show, and keeping the site as fresh and
local as is humanly possible for a lil ol' town like perth.
Re: Cripes
Thanks Shayne...it doesn't take me 2 hours a day to delete spam, it takes me that long to LOOK for it. Sometimes it creeps in, or people post comments with commercial links.
Re: What Happened to the Active Sydney website?
Can those who know tell us...roughly how much money is needed per month to keep active sydney or indymedia online?
thanks
Re: What Happened to the Active Sydney website?
A site like this could in theory be run for about $30 a month using
something like slice-host or one of the other low budget vhosts.
The
real cost is in volenteers to prune the wires and keep things orderly,
whack spam, deal with hippy drama, trolls, stalkers and so on.
Re: What Happened to the Active Sydney website?
Stalkers....yes....I have had one of those, and we don't seem to have a policy to deal with them.
Re: What Happened to the Active Sydney website?
active / Indymedia sites operate on a shoestring. That doesn't mean there aren't costs, but they are generally pretty minimal. The real reason these sites sometimes fold is lack of people getting involved. It needs people to post events/stories, people to edit stories for features, people to moderate the newswire and mailing lists, people to take some responsibility.
This site has an events listing. There is no reason why it can't be used in place of active Sydney. All it needs is one person to take some responsibility and start posting events and shepherdng that part of the site along. Its a thankless task, as are most of the tasks to do with the site. All it takes is a little bit of voluntary work, and you get this warm inner pleasure from knowing that others are benefiting from your contribuion.
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