All, Its been a little while since my last correspondance to the group but i wanted to publish an udpate about mozdex.com and what we are actively seeking for to help build a more sustainable project.
--------- Updates: ------------ Mozdex.com Focus: Creating an Open and Fair index through open technologies and open ideas. Goals: * Index 500 million pages * Export services through SOAP, XML and .NET type interfaces * Research New search technologies and methodologies * Remain Open �V Document API��s, Publish indexes & database for download �V Be a ��hub�� for internet search technologies, services and data. * Retain community support to make project more financially stable and community aware. About Mozdex: Mozdex was created as a proposal for a completely transparent search engine. The idea is to put a ��science�� behind the technology so search systems can be implemented quickly and efficiently to adopt growing technologies and changing content. I would like to continue to make mozdex more of a community project instead of a ��one man�� project and thus I am asking for support from the community to help make the project what it can be as well as to build financial and support stability. We are seeking at least four core supporters for financial support over the next 15 days to bring mozdex.com fully online again and to finish acquisition of hardware. At one point we had a commited party but due to buyout of organizaiton this has since fallen through and we are looking to spread out over a few core supporters to alleviate the "fallout" from a single loss of support. Current Hardware: Mozdex is currently deployed on the following hardware: Core Server (database) AMD Opteron 244 4 Gigs Memory 5x250 gig IDE CentOS 3 (RHEL) Query Servers (x4) AMD Athlon XP 2400 2 Gigs memory CentOS 3 (Rhel) Tomcat (web server) AMD Athlon XP 2400 1 gig memory CentOS 3 (rhel) CentOS is a freely available implementation of RHEL. We chose CentOS to remain compatible with industry standard ��server�� implementations of linux as well as to remain compatible with 3rd party vendor support. Search Software: Mozdex is powered by Nutch (http://www.nutch.org) running inside the Java 5.0 (jdk 1.5.0 b2) jvm. On our Opteron servers we utilize the 64bit JVM while on the Athlon XP��s the standard 32 bit jvm is in use. Java 5 integrates nicely with our JMX management console to have a better understanding and overview of our servers from a single management interface. Components of Nutch are integrating JMX technologies as well to help build a managed and scalable search platform. Even though Java 5 is still considered ��beta�� it has been our platform of choice for stability, performance and support of the opterons 64 bit capabilities. Projects: * Integration with eXo Platform: Ability to index & search eXo ��CMS�� documents as well as integrate with JSR 168 portlets that offer internet/intranet search and index management. eXo was selected because of its adoption of standard technologies and adoption of a clean JSR 168 Portlet interface. Because of our standardization on JSR 168 portlets you would be able to use the internet/intranet search services on any Open source or commercial portlet container such as IBM WebSphere, Oracle 10gAS and others. * JMX implementations �V Work on integrating Nutch to support JMX management interfaces. Support: Mozdex is currently seeking support of skilled professionals willing to donate time and experience to make the project successful. We are seeking skilled Unix/Linux administrators, Skilled iSCSI / SAN Professionals as well as Java developers from web apps to j2ee apps. All developers will be recognized through our website as well as receive a mozdex t-shirt, cap and accessories as we grow and mature to show our appreciation. All code implemented through mozdex will be returned to the nutch.org foundation for incorporation into nutch, lucene and other incorporated softwares abiding by the licensing within. Costs: The average cost to run mozdex.com per month is as follows: $600.00 Server Leases Average +$400.00 in Bandwith cost 20 hours week maintenance time $1,000+ costs for services 80 hrs/month time We are looking for people who wish to become a Mozdex.com partner to help us grow our services in exchange for financial support we will offer our search services and support to your business & website as well as recognition of your support on the footer of all of our pages as well as search results. Immediately we are looking for 4 sponsors willing to contribute $500.00/month. Through this contribution the 4 sponsors will be presented on ALL search results (rotated through each sponsor) for the entire period the sponsorship is supported. For example on an average day we process 100,000 queries. This would mean each sponsor would get 25,000 impressions of there ��sponsored listing�� on the HEADER of all search results as well as a small ��sponsored by�K�� ad on the footer of all mozdex.com content. Nearly 1,000,000 impressions per month and growing for $500.00 and the notion that you are contributing to a great project �� For contributions of $1,000 per month we will provide the above on our services as well as offer you a ��branded�� solution by which all of our content, search results and indexes will be branded towards your business. You could incorporate your own advertising, pay per click or Meta search results within to have your own branded commercial search system. All of the above will of course include timely support, software upgrades and index freshness and size guarantees. All sponsors will have access to priority support queue, internal forums and pager access to on-call support staff as well as access to our online training, meeting rooms and conference call systems so you will remain the respected partners we wish to work with and be kept up to date on our latest technologies and services. To inquire please send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by BEA Weblogic Workshop FREE Java Enterprise J2EE developer tools! Get your free copy of BEA WebLogic Workshop 8.1 today. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=5047&alloc_id=10808&op=click _______________________________________________ Nutch-developers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nutch-developers
