Stefan Drees wrote: > Dear Crew of the Python Starship, > > after a short email exchange of thoughts with Christian Tismer, that he > might take over again the hosting of the ship or silently give over some > of its remains to a museum, he encouraged me, to let go after four years > of hosting, so that I can get a grip on new stuff.
Yes, Stefan! You hosted the ship, you payed the bills, and you got all the little to nothing feed-backs from the Starship crew that really made you into continuing your job. I am very fond of you. We could go for some real task, now. > Remember? Back in those days, when hosting providers did not offer > python environements but html or perl or php or sh cgi's ... Chris > 'Pirx' Tismer founded the Starship, by spreading the idea that > Pythonistas should buy planks, and he then would assemble a ship - what > would become "our" ship This is almost 10 years ago, and I do remember very well. The Starship had its role, and this was very explicitly stated at one of the ancient PyCon events, when Guido stated that I had not enough resources to support the Starship well enough. Meanwhile, the world has changed quite a lot, and starship's role might have diminished or redefined. > I am convinced, that Chris will be interested, if there is still a need > for the ship and what kind of exact need there is. Yes. If there is a wish to continue Starship, then we can do this. I have a new server with a XEN site set up, ready for you. I also can toss it. It is not me who needs Starship, I'm asking you. > On October, 1st of this year 2007, whatever makes out "the ship" will > have been transferred to another location or just vanish into space. I will at least take the archives, and consider how to carry on, dependent from the community's response. > It has been a real pleisure for me to serve this community with hosting > the ship! It has been great to experience your support! We can now try something completely different. Please let us know your opinions. p.s.: this is the only time I'll be cross-posting to python-list. -- Christian Tismer :^) <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> tismerysoft GmbH : Have a break! Take a ride on Python's Johannes-Niemeyer-Weg 9A : *Starship* http://starship.python.net/ 14109 Berlin : PGP key -> http://wwwkeys.pgp.net/ work +49 30 802 86 56 mobile +49 173 24 18 776 fax +49 30 80 90 57 05 PGP 0x57F3BF04 9064 F4E1 D754 C2FF 1619 305B C09C 5A3B 57F3 BF04 whom do you want to sponsor today? http://www.stackless.com/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
