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kgoetz<p>Interesting update for <a href="https://aus.social/tags/research" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>research</span></a> in <a href="https://aus.social/tags/australia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>australia</span></a> with <a href="https://aus.social/tags/AARNET" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AARNET</span></a> joining <a href="https://aus.social/tags/ARDC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ARDC</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Nectar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Nectar</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://ardc.edu.au/article/national-node-of-ardc-nectar-research-cloud-goes-live-at-aarnet/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">ardc.edu.au/article/national-n</span><span class="invisible">ode-of-ardc-nectar-research-cloud-goes-live-at-aarnet/</span></a></p>
Adam Steer<p>Well, two Australian <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://en.osm.town/@openstreetmap" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>openstreetmap</span></a></span> tile rendering servers are shutting down this month as they reach end of life. No replacement was found yet.</p><p>Thanks <a href="https://mapstodon.space/tags/AARnet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AARnet</span></a> for providing this infrastructure over the last 5 years, and the OSM infrastructure team. It was a beautiful piece of collaboration to get going, and I hope another provider is able to step in soon! </p><p>I don't have the connections in the big compute game anymore, so it's time to hand that coordination over also. Good luck!!</p>
Onno (VK6FLAB)<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.radio/@EA7KRC" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>EA7KRC</span></a></span> for some reason I saw that and thought .. huh? Since when is the Australian Academic Research Network doing weather forecasting and for a temperature that we see regularly around these parts.</p><p>Then I noticed the spurious 'E' in your acronym.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.radio/tags/aarnet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>aarnet</span></a></p><p>Don't mind me .. carry on and stay hydrated.</p>
multimeric<p>If you are an Australian researcher, you might have migrated to AARNet's FileSender after the decommission of CloudStor.</p><p>I wrote a user friendly CLI and Python API for interacting with FileSender servers such as the AARNet one: <a href="https://wehi-researchcomputing.github.io/FileSenderCli/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">wehi-researchcomputing.github.</span><span class="invisible">io/FileSenderCli/</span></a></p><p>Hopefully someone finds this useful! I'd love some more users to test it out and provide feedback.</p><p><a href="https://genomic.social/tags/filesender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>filesender</span></a> <a href="https://genomic.social/tags/rdm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>rdm</span></a> <a href="https://genomic.social/tags/cloudstor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cloudstor</span></a> <a href="https://genomic.social/tags/rse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>rse</span></a> <a href="https://genomic.social/tags/aarnet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>aarnet</span></a></p>
Adam ♿<p>Shout out to the <a href="https://aus.social/tags/AARNet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AARNet</span></a> help desk / NOC who are extremely helpful and cool, even though I'm just a nosy home user and not actually important</p>
Adam ♿<p>If anyone on here has contacts at <a href="https://aus.social/tags/AARNet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AARNet</span></a>, they seem to be speed limiting transfers from mirror.aarnet.edu.au to <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Launtel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Launtel</span></a> customers (?) again.</p>
Adam ♿<p>Issues with speeds to <a href="https://aus.social/tags/AARNet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AARNet</span></a> from <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Launtel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Launtel</span></a></p>
Adam ♿<p>Turns out you can just rsync gobs of data from mirror.aarnet.edu.au and they just let you.</p><p><a href="https://aus.social/tags/AARNet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AARNet</span></a></p>
Everything Open Conference<p>Thank you to our Emperor <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Network" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Network</span></a> Partner <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Sponsor" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Sponsor</span></a>, <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/AARNet" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>AARNet</span></a> for our delicious packets and pipes! </p><p>We couldn&#39;t deliver <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/EverythingOpen" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>EverythingOpen</span></a> without you! </p><p>(We&#39;d make a <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/UDP" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>UDP</span></a> joke ... but you might not get it 🥁✨)</p><p><a href="https://aarnet.edu.au" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">aarnet.edu.au</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
J. Rosenbaum (they/them)<p>I quite like the file sender from <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/aarnet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>aarnet</span></a> but I can't get an immediate URL back from the API and I need that.</p>
Kathy Reid<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@kcarruthers" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>kcarruthers</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@atomicpoet" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>atomicpoet</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.mit.edu/@tguarna" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>tguarna</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://calckey.social/@Jdreben" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Jdreben</span></a></span> </p><p>Thanks Kate. I spun up <a href="https://aus.social/tags/FediverseAU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FediverseAU</span></a> precisely because of this eventuality. </p><p>There's a whole book in Twitter and its value as an academic network - adaptive systems, eocsystems, world systems literature, and how Twitter's structural changes affect the broader <a href="https://aus.social/tags/higherEd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>higherEd</span></a> communications network. </p><p>Universities *won't* spin up their own infrastructure, IMHO. I worked in an IT Dept of a major Australian University for 16 years - their focus is on outsourcing everything. </p><p>They don't *build* or *maintain* a lot anymore - they are *integrators*. Until one of their corporate providers offers Mastodon as a Service, they won't run their own. </p><p>Perhaps <a href="https://aus.social/tags/AARNet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AARNet</span></a> will run a whole-of-uni Mastodon, like it used to run whole-of-uni videoconferencing. That's a possibility. </p><p>Moreover, no university department is going to want to own <a href="https://aus.social/tags/moderation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>moderation</span></a> of Mastodon instances - in the same way that Marketing departments want to control university websites, but don't want to be responsible for all that distributed content authorship entails. </p><p>There's no tangible, immediate value in hosting a Mastodon instance - because if the institution can't control the message, why would they provide the infrastructure? </p><p>We all know the power of <a href="https://aus.social/tags/networks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>networks</span></a>, the power of <a href="https://aus.social/tags/connection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>connection</span></a> and the power of <a href="https://aus.social/tags/ecosystems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ecosystems</span></a> <br> But that power is emergent, and intangible, and cannot be quantified in a business case 🎓</p>
Kathy Reid<p>There's a massive gap I see in the <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Australia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Australia</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Fediverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fediverse</span></a> :fediverse: at the moment - and that's brand pages for organisations and research groups / research institutes. </p><p>As a case in point, I'm following a Twitter search for 'vicemergency + geelong' at the moment for flood warnings of the Barwon - org pages like vicemergency and vicses don't exist on Mastodon (yet). </p><p>Similarly, research groups and research institutes are considered brand pages by some admins (completely understandable, they have to draw the line somewhere), but often these group / institute / faculty / school pages do an enormous amount of engagement on Twitter. </p><p>We all want <a href="https://aus.social/tags/universities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>universities</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/highered" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>highered</span></a> to spin up their own <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Mastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mastodon</span></a> instances - but they often baulk at running their own infrastructure, and won't want to run instances if they can't control the content. This might be OK though for faculty / school / institute accounts. </p><p>But there are 40-odd universities in Australia. Will they all run <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Mastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mastodon</span></a> instances? Probably not. I wonder if this is a job for <a href="https://aus.social/tags/AARNet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AARNet</span></a> as a federated identity and federated service provider? That is, run a Mastodon instance that is for official university accounts in Australia? I have fediverse.au, happy to share it for this purpose.</p>