From: Rob Levin <levin@openprojects.net> To: lwn@lwn.net Subject: Plea for assistance Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2002 21:02:44 -0500 (CDT) Cc: levin@openprojects.net To the Editor, I'm writing to let your readers know that Open Projects Net IRC is in serious trouble, and to ask for their help. As a result of normal attrition in the ranks of our servers, we've begun to experience reliability problems in the service we provide. Open Projects Net IRC provides an interactive home to a number of community projects, including Debian GNU/Linux. the Enlightenment window manager project, the FluxBox window manager project, the Gtreamer streaming media framework, handhelds.org, Ice Window Manager, kernelnewbies, KDE and various KDE applications, the Linux Logical Volume Manager Project, the Linux Terminal Server Project, the Linux XFS filesystem, linuxppc.org, SchoolForge, Simple DirectMedia Layer, the Snort IDS project, the Subversion version control system project, the tinc VPN daemon, Vorbis and WineHQ. We need your help. We are looking for sponsors to provide well-connected hosts on which to run leaf servers and hidden hubs. The requirements are on our website, at http://openprojects.net/sponsoring_servers.shtml. Anyone who is interested in sponsoring a server should drop me a line at lilo@openprojects.net. Thanks in advance for any help you can provide! Sincerely yours, Rob Levin Head of Operations, Open Projects Net "Open Source, Open Technology, Open Information"