[cc-community] Open Content mirrors?

Mike Linksvayer ml at creativecommons.org
Mon Apr 7 12:02:40 EDT 2008


On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 8:49 AM, Evan Prodromou <evan at prodromou.name> wrote:
>  I'm trying to get organizations to mirror this bulk data. This has nothing
> to do with bandwidth or storage issues; of course we already have private,
> redundant backups of the site. I think that publicly-available mirrors
> operated by multiple, independent operators are good "insurance" for the
> community against failure or dramatic change in policy by any one
> organization.
>
>  Public mirrors are extremely common for Free Software, but I've had a hard
> time locating any for Open Content. Are there organizations that provide
> public mirroring of Open Content datasets like this one? I've pinged
> archive.org on the subject, and I'm waiting for a response. I've also pinged
> ibiblio.org, and they declined.

Great idea!

Off the top of my head, perhaps http://okfn.org/

Mike


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