[Crew] Four Years of Starship hosting come to an end

[Christian Tismer]

Stefan Drees wrote:
> Dear Crew of the Python Starship,
> 
> after a short email exchange of thoughts with Christian Tismer, that he 
> might take over again the hosting of the ship or silently give over some 
> of its remains to a museum, he encouraged me, to let go after four years 
> of hosting, so that I can get a grip on new stuff.

Yes, Stefan!
You hosted the ship, you payed the bills, and you got all the little
to nothing feed-backs from the Starship crew that really made
you into continuing your job. I am very fond of you. We could
go for some real task, now.

> Remember? Back in those days, when hosting providers did not offer 
> python environements but html or perl or php or sh cgi's ... Chris 
> 'Pirx' Tismer founded the Starship, by spreading the idea that 
> Pythonistas should buy planks, and he then would assemble a ship - what 
> would become "our" ship

This is almost 10 years ago, and I do remember very well.
The Starship had its role, and this was very explicitly stated
at one of the ancient PyCon events, when Guido stated that
I had not enough resources to support the Starship well enough.

Meanwhile, the world has changed quite a lot, and starship's
role might have diminished or redefined.

> I am convinced, that Chris will be interested, if there is still a need 
> for the ship and what kind of exact need there is.

Yes. If there is a wish to continue Starship, then we can do this.
I have a new server with a XEN site set up, ready for you. I also
can toss it. It is not me who needs Starship, I'm asking you.

> On October, 1st of this year 2007, whatever makes out "the ship" will 
> have been transferred to another location or just vanish into space.

I will at least take the archives, and consider how to carry
on, dependent from the community's response.

> It has been a real pleisure for me to serve this community with hosting 
> the ship!

It has been great to experience your support!

We can now try something completely different. Please let us know
your opinions.

p.s.: this is the only time I'll be cross-posting to python-list.
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