Hi again, I though it worth mentioning; if I am provided with a case to use in response to this email the HE institution will have a mention on the bid if successful, the proposal document will be publicly available - if the bid is not successful the document will be destroyed.
I realise this is extremely short notice (We only just noticed a potential gap in the bid), I do have community HE early adopter/evaluator cases to work with but I want to include all potential benefactors in scope. If your HE wanted to become a trial or early adopter then that is an option later, but absolutely no commitment is expected for this early evaluator exercise. HE institutions ranging in size from tiny to very large are welcome as long as they are registered as a UK HE Institute. JISC is funded by all the UK post-16 and higher education funding councils and community endorsement is valuable. Thanks again, Damian ---06/02/09 Hi > > I'm currently writing a funding proposal to help further technical > development of DIAP (Distributed Internet Archive Protocol(Program)) - you > may have seen a few posts on this list over the past few years as the > exploratory work took place. > > I am applying to JISC - "The Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) > supports United Kingdom post-16 and higher education and research by > providing leadership in the use of ICT (Information and Communications > Technology)" through Southampton Uni and hope to win the project 6 months > part-time technical development. > > DIAP has an early aplha-dev Perl application and if I am successful the > application should become a working innovation made available to all UK HE > establishments (GPL so beyond as well). > > What I need to help with the bid is a short paragraph describing a potential > (theoretical) early adopter and the perceived advantages to them of deploying > DIAP along side or instead of traditional Tape or NAS devices. I'm talking > about colleges rather than Universities and not necessarily local. > > If you are a sys admin or IT manager at a 6th Form college or equivalent and > have the time to respond before Monday afternoon I'd be extremely grateful. > If I can quote your HE institute then even better. Please forward to anyone > you know that may be interested. > > I need a brief description of your current backup services and your > perception of how DIAP could help your college in the future in a few > sentences - 150 words max. Are there special repositories that need extra > redundancy? Could you state if I can use your statement and name of HE > institution, if not I'll use the information generically without HE name > disclosure. > > The best page of the project to look at is the latest diagram (Jan 09) > http://www.diap.org.uk/diagram.html. The essentials are all there. Take a > look at the rest of the site if you have time. Feel free to ask me questions. > > To respond please send me a private email (without {}'s and spaces) to: db2 > {...@} ecs {.} soton {.} ac {.} uk > > If discussing DIAP (archiving and backup generally) then I'll respond on > list. > > TIA Damian > > -- > http://www.diap.org.uk - distributed archive storage system under > development. > > -- > This message has been scanned for viruses and > dangerous content by MailScanner, and is > believed to be clean. > > > -- > Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk > Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire > LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk > -------------------------------------------------------------- > -- http://www.diap.org.uk - distributed archive storage system under development. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --------------------------------------------------------------
