opengraphics.org domain going to expire

We're having some problem with our registrar, and the opengraphics.org
domain is going to expire.  Would anyone be willing to re-register the
domain with another registrar after that?

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Timothy Normand Miller
http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/~millerti
Open Graphics Project

Re: opengraphics.org domain going to expire

Several people have offered to take over opengraphics.org, which we
appreciate very much.  We have a few things we have to resolve.

So, here's our situation.  Since Traversal no longer exists (we moved
the commercial rights over to Dapem, André's open source hardware
venture), we miscommunicated with our ISP (Dreamhost), and ended up
not canceling the account and also not paying the bill.  As a result,
we owe them $35.  As well as traversaltech.com, we also registered the
opengraphics.org domain through the same account.  In order to renew
the domain, we'd have to pay the $35 for hosting Traversal, which we
don't care about anymore.  It appears that if we just don't pay, the
domain will expire on Dec 1.  However we don't know if Dreamhost will
hold it hostage after that point or not.  $35 isn't much at all, so if
that's necessary to get it released, I will pay it, but only if
necessary.  Perhaps some people can shed some insight into this.

As for who gets opengraphics.org, that's up to you guys... whoever
finds it the most convenient.

On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 12:51 AM, Timothy Normand Miller
<theosib <at> gmail.com> wrote:
> We're having some problem with our registrar, and the opengraphics.org
> domain is going to expire.  Would anyone be willing to re-register the
> domain with another registrar after that?
>
> --
> Timothy Normand Miller
> http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/~millerti
> Open Graphics Project
>

What's going on with OGP? Here's something...

With my Ph.D. and family taking up most of my time right now, I
haven't gotten to work on OGP much.  But I haven't forgotten about it.

For my consulting work, I had to learn Java to write a cross-platform
app.  Separately, just as a way to further develop my skill, I wrote
this unrelated program:  https://sourceforge.net/projects/minuteman/

That's gotten me set up to work on what I REALLY wanted to do, which
is an IDE for chip design.  I mentioned this a long time ago.  One of
the problems with coding HDLs is the massive amount of error-prone
coding you have to do just to stitch modules together.  Get one wire
the wrong size, and you get misbehavior that causes to develop more
gray hairs.  If this could be done graphically, we could save a lot of
time and pain.  There are also lots of "standard" modules that can be
just pasted in and hooked up (fifes and various types of pipeline
stage templates come to mind).

I don't get much time to work on it, so I haven't gotten very far.
But here's a screenshot:
http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/~millerti/HIDE-screenshot.png

When I have it to a point where it's really worth looking at, I'll
check the project into Sourceforge.

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Timothy Normand Miller
http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/~millerti
Open Graphics Project

Re: Re: opengraphics.org domain going to expire

If all we really owe is $35, then I'll just call and pay it now and
tell them that we want to transfer opengraphics.org to another owner.

Should we keep the traversaltech.com domain for any reason?  (I really
liked the name. :)  )

On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 4:06 PM, Matt <matt <at> mattkeenan.net> wrote:
> On 16/11/11 20:45, Timothy Normand Miller wrote:
>
> Several people have offered to take over opengraphics.org, which we
> appreciate very much.  We have a few things we have to resolve.
>
> So, here's our situation.  Since Traversal no longer exists (we moved
> the commercial rights over to Dapem, André's open source hardware
> venture), we miscommunicated with our ISP (Dreamhost), and ended up
> not canceling the account and also not paying the bill.  As a result,
> we owe them $35.  As well as traversaltech.com, we also registered the
> opengraphics.org domain through the same account.  In order to renew
> the domain, we'd have to pay the $35 for hosting Traversal, which we
> don't care about anymore.  It appears that if we just don't pay, the
> domain will expire on Dec 1.  However we don't know if Dreamhost will
> hold it hostage after that point or not.  $35 isn't much at all, so if
> that's necessary to get it released, I will pay it, but only if
> necessary.  Perhaps some people can shed some insight into this.
>
> As for who gets opengraphics.org, that's up to you guys... whoever
> finds it the most convenient.
>
> After expiry the domain should go into what is called a "Redemption Grace
> Period"; a zombie registration if you will. The time normally is a 30 day

Re: Re: opengraphics.org domain going to expire

Thanks everyone.  I'm going to pay the bill first.  After I do that,
what do I need to do to transfer the domain?

To offer "@opengraphics.org" email address forwarding

Now that opengraphics.org has been transferred to Yann, we'd like to
offer "@opengraphics.org" email addresses.  For now, just forwarding.

Should we make this open to just anyone?

Or should we take nominations for people who have been long-time
contributors, so that there's some specialness or exclusivity to it?
:)

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Timothy Normand Miller
http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/~millerti
Open Graphics Project

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