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# Hosting Terms
Hi :)
Agreement on Hosting
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We discussed and we agree to offer hosting as you requested. Now, in order for we to
effectivelly maintain this hosting, we need to:
1. State what is our commitment in relation to this hosting.
2. That you and/or your group agree with the present term of agreement and
with our Hosting Policy.
These are mutual commitment agreements, where we explain what is our commitment
with the hosting and that the hosted part needs to agree so we can keep such
relation.
In case you agree with the terms of this letter and accept our Hosting Policy,
just reply saying so and the hosting will start as soon as possible. :)
Our commitment
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We commit ourselves to keep the hosting working. The hosting maintenance
happens through volunteer and responsible work.
The used infra-structure is stable, but subject to eventual power and network
outages or even more sensitive problems.
Then, sometimes hosting can go offline. We will always be allert and we care
for security and integrity of the hosted data. But, for a lot of reasons, we
cannot garantee the total availability or even the eternity of such data.
We commit ourselves as much as possible to keep security copies of the data we
host. But we ask for you to also arrange, as much as possible, backup copies of
your data.
Our group is composed by people that do a lot of tasks. The most important and
sensitive tasks, such as hosting, are dependent to other taks and each one is
associated to a workgroup of responsible persons.
It may happen that someone leaves a workgroup and eventually some tasks will lack
commited people to get them accomplished. It's on this sense that we garantee
hosting: according to the available workforce at our group. It's possible that,
in the future, something happens and we stop hosting in a given platform.
But, if we do so, we garantee that it won't happen from night to day and we'll
give enough time for you and your project to migrate the data somewhere else.
We also have the commitment to inform, when you ask, our procedures according to
our accounting policy. Such procedures vary from privacy and security policies
to choices of platforms and our group's situation.
As our procedures can change with time, we recommend you to ask for procedures
descriptions when you feel necessary.
We have our limitations but we'll keep things working as much as we can. :)
Your commitment
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We hope that you and/or your project use the offered resource with wisdom.
Don't ask for websites and tools if you will abandon them. If you install your own
programs, please have the responsibility to keep it up-to-date as security holes at
your place can compromise other hosted projects.
Please don't forget that the maintenance of multiple projects needs a lot of work
and is difficult to keep secure. Then we ask for everyone's collaboration. We would be
very pleased if you informed us about your plans to install tools in your space. :)
Sharing interfaces
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A possible space for interactions among projects is the Neighborhood Mailing
List[1] (subscription just for sufficiently secure mail accounts, get in touch for
more information). When we host groups and individuals, we hope that they will also
be responsible in what comes to taking care of such spaces.
Our neighborhood is also a place for articulations, where all groups and
individuals sharing the same infra-structure can communicate between
themselves.
If the subjects we research are inspiring for you too, we invite you to
participate in such discussions. To avoid centralization, we propose you to
collectivelly discuss with your group and publish the conclusions you
get. For us it is fundamental to try to build a metodology that makes possible the
dissemination of such discussions.
[1] $neighborhood_mailing_list_address
In solidarity,
$grupo Collective
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