Hi All,
the GRASS community needs as soon as possible someone willing to offer a few GB and some bandwidth in Latin America and / or South Africa, because users located over there are experiencing serious problem in downloading the software (see below an email from grass-web ML). Please help!
Thanks in advance,
Madi
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Markus Neteler <neteler@osgeo.org>
Date: Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 7:49 PM
Subject: Re: [GRASS-web] Downloading GRASS
To: Clarence Ndunguru <clarence.ndunguru@gmail.com>
Cc: Margherita Di Leo <diregola@gmail.com>, GRASS-web <grass-web@lists.osgeo.org>, Rainer M Krug <Rainer.grass@krugs.de>, Gavin Fleming <gavinjfleming@gmail.com>, Paweł Netzel <pawel.netzel@uni.wroc.pl>
Hi,
(adding Rainer and Gavin)
I am still in hospital and cannot easily do things as I wish in
this period. Read on below:
On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 7:18 PM, Clarence Ndunguru
<clarence.ndunguru@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi
I’m actually located in Suriname at the moment.
It could be better if I downloaded from a source in Latin America.
ok, now I get it. We should be able to find an GRASS/OSGeo
community member in the GRASS user or OSGeo discuss list
to offer a few GB and some bandwidth.
Maybe Madi, can you publicly ask?
The two
guys who tried to download are in Congo DRC and Tanzania.
ok, so still another South Africa mirror would be good.
Rainer or Gavin: any suggestions?
By the way, I have a web hosting plan with Bluehost in USA if this can used
to setup another download mirror, I offer that we setup another mirrior on
it.
thanks for this. Let’s see if needed.
So, what we have and how it works (relevant for Madi and me):
http://grass.osgeo.org/mirrors/
To “clone” the master server is now easy, one line of command essentially
which points to the polish server.
With Pawel Netzel who set it up, I already tried how to put the actually
mirror name onto the main page but it was not yet beautiful enough for
us. But that’s a minor detail
Best
Markus
PS: Those I have added here, hope that was ok. But I must be very
efficient these days.
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European Commission - DG JRC
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