June 2009

Upgrade mostly complete

Submitted by Evan Prodromou on Fri, 06/26/2009 - 14:25

Our upgrade on Wednesday went... well... we're giving it a C right about now. Some parts have been great, like the new features that we get with our new 0.8.0 pre-release version of Laconica. But we've also moved to new hosting and we're rolled out on the status.net network, and that's meant some instability.

Right now we know of at least a few problems with the site, which we're working hard to fix:

Some users can't log in, or do anything else.

Scheduled upgrade Wed 24 Jun 2009 11:59PM EDT

Submitted by Evan Prodromou on Wed, 06/24/2009 - 20:28

We're doing a scheduled upgrade of Identi.ca to the status.net platform tonight, Wed 24 June, at 11:59PM EDT. (Just before midnight). This is short notice, but after our miss last week we really wanted to be ready before going forward.

We hope to be offline for <2 hours, with a strong probability of less that 1 hour. We'll keep this blog post (on a separate server) updated as the night goes on.

Update 9:06 PM: we're going offline now.

Update 9:59 PM: moved databases, moved XMPP server.

Portland Dent Event 19 June 2009 12 noon

Submitted by Evan Prodromou on Thu, 06/18/2009 - 00:01

I'm in Portland, OR for the Open Source Bridge conference, which is turning out to be really awesome. I've never seen such a great collection of speakers, and a great tone and attitude from Portland's strong Open Source and Web communities. You can follow some of the discussion on the #osb09 tag page on identi.ca.

It seems like a great time to have a dentevent here in Portland -- our third so far!

(Re-)scheduled downtime on Identi.ca Thu 18 Jun 3:30PM EDT

Submitted by Evan Prodromou on Tue, 06/16/2009 - 12:46

Update: for technical reasons we've postponed this upgrade; we'll schedule downtime for the weekend within 24 hours.

At Control Yourself, we're all excited to be making our first release of the 0.8.x version of Laconica this week.

Control Yourself at Open Source Bridge 17 June 2009

Submitted by Evan Prodromou on Tue, 06/16/2009 - 02:27

I'll be giving a session on Open Source Microblogging with Laconica at the Open Source Bridge event in Portland, OR. The community-organized event runs from 17 to 19 June 2009, and it's attracting speakers from around the world, attendees from around the country. I'm looking forward to the event -- I'm speaking in the first few hours of the first day.

Vancouver Dentevent 13 June 2009 11AM at Deacon's Corner

Submitted by Evan Prodromou on Fri, 06/12/2009 - 12:46

A brief note that there will be a Vancouver dentevent on Saturday, June 13 2009 at 11AM PDT. We'll be having brunch together at Deacon's Corner Gastown Diner, 101 Main Street at Alexander in Gastown. All identi.ca users and other interested people are welcome -- we'll see you there!

Control Yourself at Open Web Vancouver

Submitted by Evan Prodromou on Wed, 06/10/2009 - 02:52

I'll be giving a talk about Open Source Microblogging with Laconica at the upcoming Open Web Vancouver event in Vancouver, British Columbia.