On 10/20/14, 13:25, William Stein wrote:
On Oct 20, 2014 10:18 AM, "slelievre" <samuel.lelie...@gmail.com <mailto:samuel.lelie...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > > > William wrote: >> >> On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 6:05 AM, kcrisman <kcri...@gmail.com <mailto:kcri...@gmail.com>> wrote: >> > >> >> Why is interact.sagemath.org <http://interact.sagemath.org> down? >> >> Is this a temporary problem or has it been discontinued? >> >> Now it only points to William Stein's homepage. >> > >> > >> > I assume there must have been spam problems, though Jason had done something >> > to disallow such comments a month or two ago, so I'm a little surprised at >> > that. >> >> We shutdown the old computer boxen.math.washington.edu <http://boxen.math.washington.edu>, on which >> interact.sagemath.org <http://interact.sagemath.org> was (maybe?) hosted, since it was running a very >> old unpatch-able version of Linux. We gave people weeks to migrate >> things over, but I guess nobody cared about interact.sagemath.org <http://interact.sagemath.org>. >> >> Probably somebody could start it running again on the new >> boxen.math.washington.edu <http://boxen.math.washington.edu>, which is running again with a new OS. > > > Well, following the announcement of imminent shutdown of boxen: > > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/sagemath-users/s0bUsGN4lMQ/CNFUqkk5F8IJ > > there was a post by Jason Grout warning that interact was running > from there. He said he didn't have time to set it up elsewhere, but > apparently he made some backup, so it might be recoverable: > > > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/sagemath-users/s0bUsGN4lMQ/vzhy44OS7tQJ > > Jason's post was a couple of days after the other posts in the thread, > and so maybe it wasn't noticed. > We noticed his message. We didn't delete any data, so getting the site back is certainly possible. We waited a few weeks but boxen had to be shut down for security reasons.
I backed up the data (both the mysql database and the Drupal files) before I sent that message, so it should be ready to roll out again. If boxen is back up again, I can try to do it in the next week or so. Or if someone else wants to do it, please let me know.
I think having public cloud files, like William just enabled, plus a curated index of really nice examples, plus maybe a wiki page of short simple examples, is a better approach than the rather heavy-weight interact.sagemath.org. I think the biggest thing I took from running interact.sagemath.org is that we should do all we can to lower the barrier between creation and sharing. I now think that the barrier of posting to a separate interact.sagemath.org website (and actively maintaining it against spam) is rather high compared to just hitting a button to publish a worksheet.
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