Interesting update for #research in #australia with #AARNET joining #ARDC #Nectar

https://ardc.edu.au/article/national-node-of-ardc-nectar-research-cloud-goes-live-at-aarnet/

If you are an Australian researcher, you might have migrated to AARNet's FileSender after the decommission of CloudStor.

I wrote a user friendly CLI and Python API for interacting with FileSender servers such as the AARNet one: https://wehi-researchcomputing.github.io/FileSenderCli/

Hopefully someone finds this useful! I'd love some more users to test it out and provide feedback.

#filesender #rdm #cloudstor #rse #aarnet

Turns out you can just rsync gobs of data from mirror.aarnet.edu.au and they just let you.

#AARNet

Thank you to our Emperor #Network Partner #Sponsor, #AARNet for our delicious packets and pipes!

We couldn't deliver #EverythingOpen without you!

(We'd make a #UDP joke ... but you might not get it 🥁✨)

https://aarnet.edu.au

@kcarruthers @atomicpoet @tguarna @Jdreben

Thanks Kate. I spun up #FediverseAU precisely because of this eventuality.

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 #higherEd communications network.

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.

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.

Perhaps #AARNet will run a whole-of-uni Mastodon, like it used to run whole-of-uni videoconferencing. That's a possibility.

Moreover, no university department is going to want to own #moderation 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.

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?

We all know the power of #networks, the power of #connection and the power of #ecosystems
But that power is emergent, and intangible, and cannot be quantified in a business case 🎓