QUARK Laboratory

QUARK = QUAntitative ARCHaeology

The idea is to create a small laboratory mainly for internal purposes, but useful also for short practical courses.

There are two main advantages in having this lab:

keeping our own server, thus eliminating the need for the many expensive hosting services we are using right now
having a fair number of machines (say 5) to perform the different activities of the whole grupporicerche

Server

web server
- http://www.iosa.it/ and subdomains
- http://www.grupporicerche.it/
- comunicare archeologia
- after some testing, we could also offer ourselves to host http://www.jiia.it/
- we could start “ArcheoJobs'” project
- other websites for specific projects
code server
- git
- mercurial
mail server
- encourage the adoption of personal e-mail addresses like user@grupporicerche.it (POP and IMAP)
- host mailing lists (existing and new) with mailman
  - list@iosa.it
  - grupporicerche@googlegroups.com
  - iisl
- put up a webmail (Roundcube? Zimbra?)
SSH access for tech users and admins
jabber server ?
every server we might need could ideally be started once the base structure is active (probably not everything on the same machine… anyway)

Centralized login (LDAP)
Centralized fileserver (?): probably buying a huge disk is the better solution. home directories can be hosted on the fileserver. This shoould allow also public_html directories like http://www.grupporicerche.it/~user/
- http://pam-mount.sourceforge.net/ looks like what we need

This way we shouldn't be locked by “this is my computer” situations. However, a good network is needed to ensure there are no excessive slowdowns