Get involved
Ways to help: bandwidth and storage, new mirror projects, guides and translations.
Contribute to the mirror
The mirror grows with the bandwidth, storage and time people give it.
Ways to help
- Bandwidth and storage: host a node or offer capacity in a regional data centre. co-location is very welcomed.
- Maintenance: watch sync jobs for one project and report or fix problems.
- Monitoring: help build the status checks shown on the mirror status page.
What we need from a hosting partner
- Linux machine with any storage, any bandwidth and ability to maintain reasonable uptime
- Location in a GCC country
- Public IPv4 (IPv6 preferred as well)
- A named contact for incidents
How to offer help
- Contact maintainer (contribute -at- oiv.ae)
Priorities list
- Co-location in Dubai, Abu-Dhabi, Fujeirah in UAE
- VMs in other locations
- Servers (reasonable aged, post-production hardware is welcomed)
- SSD and SAS disks (can be collected and wiped per standards on-site before media leaves the building)
- Financial contribution with all formalities (project is non-profitable organization)
- Legal support
- Contribution appreciation
- Events invitations
Code of conduct
oiv.ae is a place to learn and help each other.
Expected behaviour
- Be respectful and patient, especially with people who are new to Linux.
- Keep discussion on topic and in English.
- Credit other people's work.
Not accepted
- Harassment, insults or personal attacks.
- Sharing other people's private information.
- Spam and unsolicited advertising.
Reporting a problem
Contact the maintainers. Reports are handled privately.