Formed in 2009, the Archive Team (not to be confused with the archive.org Archive-It Team) is a rogue archivist collective dedicated to saving copies of rapidly dying or deleted websites for the sake of history and digital heritage. The group is 100% composed of volunteers and interested parties, and has expanded into a large amount of related projects for saving online and digital history.
History is littered with hundreds of conflicts over the future of a community, group, location or business that were "resolved" when one of the parties stepped ahead and destroyed what was there. With the original point of contention destroyed, the debates would fall to the wayside. Archive Team believes that by duplicated condemned data, the conversation and debate can continue, as well as the richness and insight gained by keeping the materials. Our projects have ranged in size from a single volunteer downloading the data to a small-but-critical site, to over 100 volunteers stepping forward to acquire terabytes of user-created data to save for future generations.
The main site for Archive Team is at archiveteam.org and contains up to the date information on various projects, manifestos, plans and walkthroughs.
This collection contains the output of many Archive Team projects, both ongoing and completed. Thanks to the generous providing of disk space by the Internet Archive, multi-terabyte datasets can be made available, as well as in use by the Wayback Machine, providing a path back to lost websites and work.
Our collection has grown to the point of having sub-collections for the type of data we acquire. If you are seeking to browse the contents of these collections, the Wayback Machine is the best first stop. Otherwise, you are free to dig into the stacks to see what you may find.
The Archive Team Panic Downloads are full pulldowns of currently extant websites, meant to serve as emergency backups for needed sites that are in danger of closing, or which will be missed dearly if suddenly lost due to hard drive crashes or server failures.
ArchiveBot is an IRC bot designed to automate the archival of smaller websites (e.g. up to a few hundred thousand URLs). You give it a URL to start at, and it grabs all content under that URL, records it in a WARC, and then uploads that WARC to ArchiveTeam servers for eventual injection into the Internet Archive (or other archive sites).
To use ArchiveBot, drop by #archivebot on EFNet. To interact with ArchiveBot, you issue commands by typing it into the channel. Note you will need channel operator permissions in order to issue archiving jobs. The dashboard shows the sites being downloaded currently.
BALUG is
the(San Francisco)Bay Area
Linux Users
Group.
We generally meet monthly.
We also operate several
mailing lists.
BALUG meetings
EFFECTIVE 2020-05-17 MEETINGS RESUME IN-PERSON! (virtual also remains)
BALUG generally
meets the third Tuesday of each month.
We talk about
Linux and related
topics.
We commonly have a speaker/presentation for our meetings.
In any case, with or without a speaker/presentation arranged and scheduled,
our meetings include good people, and interesting conversations.
And if we haven't announced/posted a
speaker/presentation, don't let that fool you - sometimes we manage to score an
excellent speaker/presentation (e.g. at the last minute) without our having
managed to get it posted onto the web site and an announcement sent out in advance.
Meeting starts promptly at 6:00 P.M. - note this is new time. Punctual arrival recommended for optimal dining experience.
We dine, and following that (approximately 7:00 P.M.) have our presentation/talk, or more informal talk/discussion if we don't have a particularly presentation/talk/presenter or special guest arranged.
See also:
venue.
Next meetings:
Be sure to note future meetings on your calendar:
2024-01-16 Theme: watchdog & troubleshooting intermittent issues
Don't have specific speaker/presentation lined up for this
meeting at least at the time of this update, but do have a
discussion topic: watchdog & troubleshooting intermittent issues.
So, likely to include but not limited to:
watchdog timers, devices, software, hardware
troubleshooting intermittent/fast/rare issues
etc.
2024-02-20
2024-03-19
2024-04-16
2024-05-21
2024-06-18
2024-07-16
2024-08-20
2024-09-17
2024-10-15
2024-11-19
(...)
BALUG generally meets the third Tuesday of each month.
Subscribe to our
"announce"
list to learn of upcoming meetings and speakers/presentations.
In Person:
Henry's Hunan Restaurant
110 Natoma St. (between 2nd & New Montgomery, not to be confused with their other location(s))
San Francisco, CA 94105-3704
1-415-546-4999 https://www.hhunan.com/https://www.hhunannatoma.com/
Virtual: https://meet.jit.si/BALUG.org
Dial-in numbers also available at the URL.
Please use earbud(s)/headphone(s) or mute yourself
to avoid audio feedback issues,
also please if you have background sound/noise issues
mute yourself when not talking.
Generally works quite fine with reasonably modern
Firefox Chrome/Chromium, Microsoft Edge, possibly others (requires
WebRTC
(Wikipedia: WebRTC)
(can also do some testing here:
https://test.webrtc.org/
Probably don't worry about minor items like "Reflexive connectivity"
)),
from desktop, laptop, tablet, smart phone, etc.
BALUG Mailing Lists
BALUG Mailing Lists:
BALUG-Announce ("announce") - low-volume announce-only (non-discussion) mailing list (e.g. important announcements about meeting programs and other BALUG newsy/noteworthy items; if you subscribe to any of our lists, you'll want to include this one)
BALUG-Talk ("talk") general public BALUG, Linux and related discussion (see the URL for policies)
BALUG-Admin ("admin") - administrivia (for those interested in the inner workings of the BALUG group)
Note that all of the above lists are publicly archived - so one can search them and/or get an idea of traffic volume, what lists one may be most interested in, etc.
Note that most of the lists can also be subscribed to as a digest version (e.g. if one wants all the items on the list to be combined into a single mailing when the list (e.g. "talk") might sometimes be very "chatty").
CABAL
In conjunction with
CABAL,
we will help you install Linux.
We could also always use more volunteers to make BALUG even better!
You can do useful and cool stuff volunteering to help BALUG!
Quite a variety of opportunities to help BALUG, e.g.:
assist or lead on speaker coordination/procurement, etc. (help arrange, refer to us, coordinate schedules, etc.)
venue arrangement (e.g. followup on potential leads, on-site coordination/preparations) and the like, for now and/or in future
publicity (e.g. helping us get information out in as timely a manner as feasible, and in as many places as appropriate)
website: webmaster and/or assistance with routine updates/additions designer, graphic artist
Linux Systems Administration (e.g. do/assist/learn, with/under some quite experienced and skilled Linux systems administrator(s)).
archivist/history/retrieval/etc.
writing up meeting "minutes" (brief summaries of meeting highlights - e.g. information on presentations, interesting/noteworthy discussions/topics, etc.; suitable for web use, or even just rough notes on the relevant items)
mailing list maintenance
chief/assistant cat herder
and other various/miscellaneous tasks BALUG would like to be doing (also feel free to suggest ideas!)
If you're at all interested in helping with any and/or all of the above,
or more, or looking for more information,
please drop us a note
at:BALUG contact
and/or
talk to us at a meeting.
Formed in 2009, the Archive Team (not to be confused with the archive.org Archive-It Team) is a rogue archivist collective dedicated to saving copies of rapidly dying or deleted websites for the sake of history and digital heritage. The group is 100% composed of volunteers and interested parties, and has expanded into a large amount of related projects for saving online and digital history.
