The old
Over the past 2 months we have been contacting current members who appear to be inactive. Last month we deactivated a large number of websites belonging to members who appeared (by various measures) to be inactive and who did not respond to our email/IMs. Today we deleted these accounts. We can still restore them from backup if necessary. If you somehow missed all out attempts to communicate with you and didn’t notice your website was down for a month but still want your AL account please contact us immediately.
The new
Tomorrow is the last day to submit your application for an AmbitiousLemon account in this second round of new member application periods for 2008. We expect to admit roughly 20 new members. After the application period is closed we will spend several days reviewing the applications and will be contacting everyone who submitted a completed application. If you have any questions let us know.
May 30th, 2008
There has been a small change in the url for the control panel. If you are a member please check your email for the new url or just use the links to the control panel in the members area.
May 6th, 2008
Late last night into this morning the server was down. We aren’t sure what precipitated the problem but disabling dav and suexec allowed us to get the server back online. This means webdav and svn aren’t currently working.
We’ll keep you informed as we learn more.
May 4th, 2008
We have reopened the application system for new members. This application period will take place from May 1st to June 1st. After June 1st administrators will review the applicants with the expectation of adding approximately 20 new members.
We have also added some new articles to the wiki to help guide applicants. Please look these articles over before submitting your completed application.
May 1st, 2008
The current membership application period has ended and we have added 14 new members to our community. Following the application period I added a couple new articles to the wiki knowledgebase to help future applicants improve their applications.
This new group of members is extremely diverse and includes: academics, artists of various media, some coders, and various hobbyists.
We expect to reopen applications after this group has settled-in to their new home here at AmbitiousLemon (probably 1-4 weeks from now). If you are still waiting for new membership we suggest subscribing to this blog’s rss feed to keep up to date on whether we are admitting new members.
April 21st, 2008
After more than 2 years of only accepting a limited number of new members AmbitiousLemon is again completely open to new members applications. We will be accepting applications for membership between April 7th 2008 and April 18th 2008. After April 18th the application process will be closed and administrators will begin to review applications. We expect to admit approximately 20 new members during this application phase.
After the new group of members gets settled in we will open again for another round of new applications. So hopefully this will become a regular thing again.
To begin the application process please proceed to the contact us page.
April 7th, 2008
We believe we have finally identified the issue that has been causing the instability of the server in recent days. It appears that one of our cpus is dying. We should be able to address this issue by removing the bad cpu, but it might be some time before we can afford to replace the cpu. We are going to continue to investigate the issue so that we may be more certain that this is the only issue at hand. Again we apologize for the inconvenience these problems may have caused.
February 16th, 2008
We have been experiencing intermittent down time for the past couple hours. This is related to investigations to resolved the issues that caused the last outage. We apologize for the inconvenience.
February 15th, 2008
We had approximately 2 hours of downtime today (between 12 and 2pm PST). While we are back online, the underlying issue will take some more time to fix.
February 4th, 2008
With summer coming to a close and many of our volunteers returning to school I thought it would be a good time to post an update.
Progress was made on the Ruby on Rails Applicant and Directory system. One volunteer did a great job getting Subversion Trac and Capistrano in shape for better collaboration. This means we are much better able to bring new volunteers on and get them up to speed and committing code quickly (something we haven’t been great at in the past).
While I had hoped to get the new applicant system running by the end of summer (and thus begin accepting new members again), not much progress was made on closing tickets needed to make this happen. We can’t reopen until this software is functional.
If you have experience with ruby on rails we sure could use your help.
August 20th, 2007
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