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.