Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote:
Yes, "all the mirrors in the world" included
Amazon. No reply from them
either and I'm not going to write companies who don't have a mirroring
program/an explicit interest in the offer. It's appreciated if others
do, though.
Yeah, 34 TB is still a lot of data, unfortunately. I think most people
reading this list recognize and appreciate this. (I actually have a draft
e-mail about Dispenser requesting 24 TB just a few weeks ago....)
I'd personally like to see a price breakdown for this project. Doing a bit
of quick research, it sounds like storage alone would probably cost maybe
$4,000 USD, but it depends whether you're buying individual 2 TB drives or
you're buying larger 20 TB drives. More than this, though, is the ongoing
and recurring costs assuming you want to keep this data online. Is having
this (backup) data be available online an explicit goal here? Or is the
primary goal simply to have an offline backup of this data?
In either case (online or offline), a price breakdown would help nearly
any volunteer organization (such as a Wikimedia chapter) decide whether
to help in this effort. Crowd-sourcing the funding for this project is
also a possibility, either via individual donations (Kickstarter, perhaps)
or via small grants from various Internet-related or free content-related
organizations (EFF, Mozilla, Wikimedia, et al.).
Soliciting money for this project requires a much clearer, detailed plan.
The current shoe-string strategy of everyone downloading a piece of the 34
TB is certainly romantic, but it also seems to be impractical and silly.
MZMcBride