Update at bottom... On Sat, 8 Jul 2017 at 01:08, shirish शिरीष <shirisha...@gmail.com> wrote:
> at bottom :- > > On 07/07/2017, Sudhanwa Jogalekar <sudhanwa....@gmail.com> wrote: > > COEP and/or IIIT in Pune could be a good choice in the near future. > > I saw an ad in the newspaper today from COEP for supply of 1000 and 300 > meg > > of bandwidth for these organisations. > > God only knows why they need so much of bandwidth. Can be utilised for > > hosting mirrors for sure. > > > > -Sudhanwa > > > > > > I know most of the hostels have wi-fi access so they may be > downloading stuff, also they do have a 3-d printer so files for that > would be somewhat heavy I imagine, apart from that, yes if they want > they can dedicate bandwidth for mirror hosting. > > There was talk couple of years ago to have mirrors of foss distros. > and also make them available via wi-fi to people around campus as well > as radius of around 200 metres or so people could download distros, > updates etc. but the discussion went no-where. > > Keeping mirror current and fixing when it goes down is dedicated work, > it's upto the COEP folks and their mgmt. if they want to take up the > challenge. > > -- > Regards, > Shirish Agarwal शिरीष अग्रवाल > My quotes in this email licensed under CC 3.0 > http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ > http://flossexperiences.wordpress.com > EB80 462B 08E1 A0DE A73A 2C2F 9F3D C7A4 E1C4 D2D8 > _______________________________________________ > plug-mail mailing list > plug-mail@plug.org.in > http://list.plug.org.in/listinfo/plug-mail > Just a quick update that the PicoNets Indian mirror now has a few more distros available including Fedora! See http://mirrors.piconets.webwerks.in/ -- "The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page." - St. Augustine.
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