Advogato: OPN status update, assistance request

“Open Projects Net is an extremely small infrastructure
project which, in its present form, has provided services to the
community since early 1998. OPN IRC provides interactive services
to projects and groups involved with “Open Source, Open Technology,
Open Information”. We are about to embark on a program of
accelerated growth. This article describes the state of the project
and mentions areas where we could use assistance.“

“Open Projects Net has existed in its current form since early
1998. At its inception it had about 100 users and some small number
of channels. It currently has peak load of nearly 3,000 clients and
1,000 channels. To a certain extent, we’re a victim of our own
success. We’ve had a fairly steady growth rate, doubling every 5-7
months. Some of the affiliated groups are listed here. In addition,
we have architecture channels relating to MIPS and PowerPC and
various small development channels, as well as publications
channels and support groups.”

“Various internal projects must come to usability for us to keep
running and growing. We are converting to a modified hybrid server
which should reduce the impact of various denial attacks, but we
have no coders dedicated to finishing the project. We emphasize
friendly communication and project coordination, but staff training
is essential and, as the founder, I have little time to write and
test coursework. We’ve begun a process to develop a long-term
replacement for IRC, but this is the early design stage and
recruitment of developers with cryptographic expertise to complete
the design and begin coding takes time which, again, is
lacking.”

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