Looking-for-hosting.md

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-We are an affinity group run underfunded project about rebooting the #openweb to help people to step away from the corporate silos. Currently concentrating on the w3c standard activertypub to do this in a few ways:
+We are an affinity group run, underfunded project about rebooting the #openweb to help people step away from the corporate silos.
 
-Run instances of good #4opens UX applications for public use. 
+Currently concentrating on using the w3c standard ActivityPub to do this in a few ways:
 
-Mastodon x2
-Peertube
-Searx 
-Gita 
+Run instances of good, #4opens UX applications for public use (http://hamishcampbell.com/index.php/projects/4opens/)
+    - Mastodon x2 (https://activism.openworlds.info/ | https://campaign.openworlds.info/)
+    - Peertube    (down)
+    - Searx       (https://openworlds.info/)
+    - Gitea       (https://unite.openworlds.info/)
+    - Etherpad    (https://pad.openworlds.info/)
+    - XMPP        (https://chat.openworlds.info/)
 
-Development of missing parts of the "fediverse" is our current project. Active development of modern standards based reboot of the indymedia network to become the "news" part of this network. You can see our talk at the ActivityPub Conf 2020 which you guys provided the BBB video hosting for https://conf.tube/videos/watch/953de898-74dc-4665-95fb-313042f66cc6 
+Development of missing parts of the "fediverse" **[focussed on journalism/ activism ???]** is our current focus.
+We use our gitea instance for organising and planning this effort, while also testing it for use in "publishing" content to the fediverse (via the wiki and possible ActivityPub integration).
 
-As a part of the rollout of the radically decentralised indymedia news network we need to have online a sweat of stable fedivers apps. We have these running on VPS's on OVH the problem for us in the peertube which storage and processing power are a issue - we put the application into you guys to move the hosting of http://visionon.tv which is currently down due to lack of space to a more robust server with good sysadmin backup.
+Active development of an indymedia network based on modern standards, in order to become the "news" part of this ~~network~~ **[fediverse ?]**.
+- You can see our talk at the ActivityPub Conf 2020, which you guys provided the BBB video hosting for (https://conf.tube/videos/watch/953de898-74dc-4665-95fb-313042f66cc6)
 
-We are not asking you guys to host a ever expanding project as the idea is very wide self hosting to build local on the ground "openweb" communities, that is DIY hosting. What we need is a bit of stability and scaling for the year to roll out the test/dev codebases. 
+We are also collaborating with the author of https://epicyon.freedombone.net/ [AGPL], where we aim to rollout an instance as an example of the potential for truly community-scale, local journalism (which may then propagate out into the wider fediverse). 
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+As part of the rollout of a radically decentralised indymedia news network, we need to have online a suite of stable fediverse apps. Currently, we have these running on several OVH VPS's.
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+The problem for us is our peertube instance, where both storage and processing power are an issue. We put the application into you guys with the hope to move the hosting of https://visionon.tv/ (which is currently down due to lack of space) to a more robust server with good sysadmin backup.
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+We are not asking you guys to host an ever-expanding project, as the idea is to encourage and facilitate self-hosting, to build local, on the ground, "openweb" communities - DIY hosting, akin in some ways to the https://freedombone.net project.
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+What we need is a bit of stability and scaling for the year, in order to roll out the test/dev codebases.
 
 Our first ask is for a peertube install to host the videos uploaded by the grassroot journalists. The second stage if you guys are interested would be a few light wight city indymedia news sites.
 
 Yes it is quite political, but it's also VERY FOSS.
 
-Hamish, bashrc, sanders and the #OMN crew.
+Hamish, bashrc, saunders and the #OMN crew.