[SFD-discuss] Free Culture Disk

[Frederic Muller - SFI]

Yes so it seems: I was reading sourceforge terms of use and couldn't 
find any specific number neither.

I suppose we need a few download/uploads to master the DVD and then we 
should probably offer a peer to peer access for everyone who wants to 
download the 'stable' version (as we did in 2011). We could also have 
the stable versions hosted on archive.org as Fabian volunteered to help 
out with those.

So now I guess we just need to pick a service. I'd be happy to hear from 
the people who have helped in 2011 and not be the only one choosing.

Thanks.

Fred


On 01/19/2012 11:35 AM, julien forgeat wrote:
> Hi Fred
>
> My understanding of these services policies is that they do not
> explicitly prohibit large file hosting but will at least throttle
> accounts that show bandwidth usage higher than what they consider
> reasonable.
>
> I have not checked all the terms of service but here is as a
> reference, the clause from github
>
>> If your bandwidth usage significantly exceeds the average bandwidth usage (as determined solely by GitHub) of other GitHub customers, we reserve the right to immediately disable your account or throttle your file hosting until you can reduce your bandwidth consumption.
>
> I don't know how many release of the large DVD files are needed to
> build the free culture disk but if this number is not too high, I
> would point at bit torrent to leverage the difficult (free bandwidth;
> large files) couple.
>
> Julien