[lugm.org] Announcing a Mauritian tech forum

Tue Dec 17 18:28:47 UTC 2013

fck you are damn right. +101 _)))

K

On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 10:26 PM, Nishal Goburdhan <ndg at ieee.org> wrote:

> On 17 Dec 2013, at 5:05 PM, Vy-Shane Sin Fat <shane at node.mu> wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 10:35 PM, Nishal Goburdhan <ndg at ieee.org> wrote:
> >
> > The site is hosted on Amazon's EC2. I picked EC2 simply because...
>
> full disclosure:  i'm neither mauritian, nor based in MU anymore.  i
> monitor this list out of curiosity mostly.  which also means i have zero
> commercial interest in this.
>
> from my days in MU, there seems to be a large culture of "not caring where
> we host".
> (actually, it was worse that that;  it was also a "not caring how we're
> addressed";  i have strong issues with companies that have mail addresses
> ending in @gmail.com / intnet.mu because, it tells me that they lack
> their own online business identity, which i think is important.)
>
> i've always believed that the goal to success is to lead by example;  the
> organisation that i did have ties to while i was in MU, made a point of
> keeping, and hosting, the mauritian facing part of their infrastructure in
> MU, even though it was more expensive.  i know that some people on this
> list share that mentality.  i think that's an important part of growing the
> local market.
>
> my point about "not hosting in MU" was really, to kickstart some local
> organisation into seeing that this is actually something useful, and
> perhaps gearing them to work with you, and vice-versa.  after all, if you
> don't start investing in your own local environment, don't expect others
> to... !
>
>
> >> ** makes access to this slower for MU users, which in turn would make
> them less likely to want to contribute
> >
> > The box is hosted in Singapore, which among EC2's regions, is I think
> > the best the region for Mauritian users. I've kept graphics to a
> > minimum on the site. Hopefully load times shouldn't be too much of a
> > problem.
>
> from what i remember of the way that MT and Emtel do their routing, that's
> probably not going to be the case.
> they both breakout for IP transit in europe primarily, although MT does
> have a branch to malaysia telecom.
> that used to be used for backup mostly, but that might have changed;  i
> see a traceroute from MU does indeed go MY->SG, so that's good for now!
>
> anyway..that's not necessarily relevant :-)
>
>
> >> * as a sometimes techie, i'd say:   "what, no IPv6?"     ;-)
> >
> > IPv6 isn't a priority at the moment.
>
> nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.....don't say it like that  :-(
>
>
> > I won't rule it out, but I think
> > that the biggest challenge for the site is not technical at all. The
> > question is: does Mauritius even need a tech forum? Will people be
> > interested enough to join and use it? If no one uses the site, it'll
> > just quietly fade away.
>
> in south africa, there's a local end-user/tech forum called mybroadband(.
> co.za).
> i forget the history (it's been a while) but it started as just a way for
> people to write about/discuss their online experiences.  at the time, this
> was limited to just the DSL offering from the incumbent, but over time,
> this has grown, and become the de-facto go-to site for most home networking
> / general simple tech issues.  analogous to the whirlpool forums that you'd
> find in australia.
> one thing that spawned from these forums, was some sort of tech journalism
> - see http://mybroadband.co.za/news/
> they've gown - so much so, that they now have an annual large meeting that
> attracts *lots* of folks.
> that's *one* possible growth path for you...iirc, there's just the orange
> tech fair that happens once a year in MU as a generic "tech" show, and
> that's just around stuff that they sell.
>
> let me be clear;  i support the idea of a tech-forum.  but, as you
> rightfully said, it should be something that the locals want, and that they
> support.  props to you for setting this up - and double props for using a
> .mu domain as i know it's hideously expensive.   a good thing to use this
> forum for, is to show best practices - two of which i outlined earlier -
> local hosting (the need for it), and IPv6 - and that's why i mentioned them
> ;-)
>
> i'm guessing you have a strategy to market this inside MU, or is that what
> this post is - to ask for marketing strategies - and bring awareness -
> to/from the list inhabitants?
>
>
> >> as a more networking related geek, i'd bemoan that there isn't a
> "networking" section, but i guess that this is aimed at home users, so the
> routing protocol market is small here ;-)
> >>
> >> --n.
> >
> > I've renamed the forum "The Server Room" to "Servers and Networking" :-)
>
>
> heh.  thanks  ;-)
>
> --n.
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