[governance] Downtime for this list and website

[Deirdre Williams]

Thank you Jeremy.
The co-cos were informed of the problem by the IGC's current webhosting
service, and referred it to Jeremy since it is beyond our technical
competence.

This necessity, and the hosting arrangements generally, is one of the
in-house issues to which the IGC needs to give some attention when we're up
and running again.

Deirdre
Co-coordinator

On 28 January 2015 at 15:14, Jeremy Malcolm <jmalcolm at eff.org> wrote:

> The IGC server needs to be upgraded to patch it against the recent Ghost
> (CVE-2015-0235) vulnerability.  I'm going to take care of this on behalf
> of the co-coords, but since we were several operating system releases
> behind, this will be a bigger system upgrade than usual, with a bigger
> chance of things going wrong.
>
> Therefore please expect some disruption to the list and the website over
> the next 6 hours.  Thanks!
>
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