Scheduled Maintenance Next Week
There might some downtime
This coming Monday (Jun 30) and again on Wednesday (Jul 2) there will be some maintenance in daytime (10:00-16:00 BST). "We do not anticipate any impact to customer services," the host said, "but due to the nature of the work being done we are announcing this as an at risk period for the network."
The most sensitive service (to downtimes anyway) is IRC. That's because there's no redundancy built in. Our IRC network is all in one place (in London).
Just over a month from now IRC will turn 37. A few months later we turn 19, only a few weeks after the FSF officially turns 40.
Our community is alive and well. That includes many of the same people who have helped run the IRC sessions since 2008. We've had a productive week and we hope no downtimes will occur next week. █