[PLUG-ANNOUNCE] TUESDAY: PLUG Advanced Topics: Internet Mirroring Roundtable

[Michael Dexter]

Portland Linux/Unix Group Advanced Topics Meeting Announcement

Who: Moderator Michael Dexter, PLUG Volunteer
What: Internet Mirroring Roundtable
Where: Free Geek, 1731 SE 10th Avenue, Portland
When: Tuesday, July 19th 2016, at 7PM
Why: The pursuit of technology freedom
Stream: http://pdxlinux.org/live

What's in a mirror?

If you've spent any time GNU/Linux distro hopping or testing 
virtualization strategies, you have probably spent a non-trivial amount 
of time in the "nearest" download mirror. Such mirrors vary in speed, 
quality and navigability. The burden for upholding quality in each of 
these respects falls both on the often-volunteer mirror maintainers and 
the often-volunteer project maintainers. Failure from a mirror's 
perspective is obvious: You can't access the materials you want to 
download or what you download is corrupt. In the case of the downloads 
themselves, THIS:

mirror.org/releases/amd64/20160704/livedvd-amd64-multilib-20160704.iso

I was cleaning up my local mirror and came across this path and 
installer ISO and... HAVE NO IDEA WHAT OS IT IS.

This roundtable will discuss the good, the bad and the ugly of such 
mirroring and what to do about it, ideally resulting in a draft proposal 
for a conventions that projects and mirrors could follow.

See you there!

Calagator Page: http://calagator.org/events/1250470283

Many will head to the Lucky Lab at 915 SE Hawthorne Blvd. after the meeting.

Rideshares Available

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See you there!

Michael Dexter
PLUG Volunteer