I'm not an active community member, but I'd be interested in getting a
podcast of this conference made available after the fact!
On Thu, Sep 27, 2018 at 3:55 PM Ashwin Krishna
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Thanks Todd.
>
> We are planning to host a conference call and would like all the active
> admins and community members to join to have a discussion with the Zmanda
> team at BETSOL regarding future collaborations.
>
> Will be sending out the meeting details (US time) with the agenda later.
>
> Regards,
> Ashwin Krishna
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Todd M. Kover <[email protected]>
> Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2018 4:24 PM
> To: J Chapman Flack <[email protected]>
> Cc: Ashwin Krishna <[email protected]>; Gene Heskett
> <[email protected]>; [email protected]
> Subject: Re: Zmanda acquired from Carbonite by BETSOL -- future of Amanda
> development?
>
> > > I have reached out to members of -- owner-amanda-users group, > >
> [email protected] , [email protected] in the past offering > > our
> help and support to maintain amanda community.
> >
> > It's possible I've never known this -- who are the people who > maintain
> the amanda.org website and mailing lists, or receive >
> postmaster/webmaster/-owner mail?
>
> The web stuff is hosted at sourceforge and anyone with commit access there is
> able to update it/maintain it. The code transitioned to github, but the
> website stayed behind.
>
> Mailing lists (and amanda.org itself) is me. I'm a cs/umd-alumni who used to
> be part of the amanda core team when there was such a thing and also did some
> development for a period, before zmanda. (I'm also someone who still runs
> amanda...). I have no affiliation with zmanda or carbonite or betsol.
>
> There was a time when there was a core team who dealt with the overall care
> and feeding of the project, but that kind of went by the wayside when Zmanda
> stepped in and built a commercial project around it. I have resisted folding
> the amanda.org stuff into the commercial projects (both at zmanda and since),
> believing that the community is really the team that should call the shots,
> which has essentailly meant amanda-hackers, historically. Ultimately, it is
> a matter of who is willing to give time to the project, which it sounds like
> betsol is, which is great news.
>
> -Todd
>
