About VolunteerGrid2

VolunteerGrid2 was initiated on 11.January.2011 by Zooko O'Whielacronx in an email to the Tahoe-LAFS developers list:

Zooko O'Whielacronx to tahoe-dev show details Jan 11, 2001

Folks:

I've heard from a few different people that they want a Tahoe-LAFS grid to contribute a server to and receive storage service in return. There is one such grid in operation, called "volunteergrid", but it is not accepting new members at this time. Therefore, I'm creating a mailing list named "volunteergrid2-l" to let such people self-organize. I'm going to be the mailing list administrator, but otherwise I don't intend to spend a lot of time organizing.

Here is a proposed "constitution" for volunteergrid2.

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Welcome to volunteergrid2-l!

Rules (enforced by community):

1. We have at most 20 members.
2. Respect one another's privacy and security. (Normally Tahoe-LAFS makes it impossible to do otherwise, but accidents can happen, and when they do, mutual respect for one another's privacy is the best defense.)
3. Contribute more storage space than you use (remember that expansion uses up more disk space by a factor of N/K, and that old version of files linger for about a month before they are garbage-collected).
4. Offer good quality, durable, highly-available service -- commit to keeping your server(s) running year after year. If a server dies, try to rescue the data off of its hard drive. Use careful system administration. Try to keep your servers up and reachable all the time. Let your fellow volunteers know if there is a failure or interruption of service.
5. [mysteriously missing from the original post]
6. Be nice! Kindness and good humor help groups of human cooperate more efficiently.

The VolunteerGrid2 is organized around a (closed) mailing list http://tahoe-lafs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/volunteergrid2-l, and this wiki.

You can find more about the philosophies and core ideas behind the VolunteerGrid2 in VolunteerGrid2 Philosophies.