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Hey all,

there we are on the day after account expiration. A few words on what is going to happen to the code left on Toolserver.

First of all THANK YOU for migrating so many tools!!! It's awesome that so many of you made this extra effort and I know that for many this has been / still is very demanding and time-consuming! I would also like to thank all those among you who worked on the migration process itself, who gave me information, explanations and ideas, who reminded me of stuff or just *did* useful stuff. This has been very helpful for me as you know much more about the Toolserver and its integration into the Wikiverse than I do. Nosy, Mette and Coren still have a lot of work ahead, too, but thanks a lot to you as well, for helping all the users during migration and for having issues on the radar! Finally, thank you again, DaB., for the years of commitment you put into the Toolserver and its community. And thanks to River whom I never met but who left structures other admins could deal with.

What's next?

To those who haven't migrated: Quite a lot of you can find your tools on this list already:

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Tool_Labs/Collection_of_issues_after_Toolserv...

About migrating now: You can still get your backups from ts-admins@toolserver.org and migrate. There are some volunteer helpers around on that page (lower part) so if you need support, ask them. Once you've created a "tool" in Tool Labs and uploaded your files, you can add other maintainers with a click.

About other people's files: Valhallasw, you asked if someone could get all the backups and archive them. The problem are the private files in there (esp. in the home directories). Nobody can sit down and sort the files of hundreds of tools and decide which ones to give to others. This is why we hand over backups to the owners only. The contents of your public_html folders were accessible until yesterday. If they are under a free license (and this has to be checked in detail, too), we strongly recommend to contact the authors about reusing the code because some might not be completely comfortable with others looking at their code in detail. I would like to encourage all of you to let other interested people work on your code. It's a great opportunity to learn from how others deal with it / from what they make out of it. So, if you are contacted by others, it would be cool if you freed the knowledge! If others turn to us / the ts-admins and request access to your public_html folders and it's free software, we will contact you if possible. If we don't hear from you then, we will hand it over, assuming that this is why you put it under a free license.

About deletion of data: Backups are kept until August 31st 2014! Once Toolserver will be physically decommissioned in Haarlem, we'll have to purge all hard disks. So please come and get your backups or other people's code you want to work on *before August 31st*!

Cheers, Silke

- -- Silke Meyer Internes IT-Management und Projektmanagement Toolserver

Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin Tel. (030) 219 158 260

http://wikimedia.de

Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985.