And the use of mailbags will effectively eliminate the bandwidth penalty. The use of open source software throughout means that we could enhance and fix where required. The documented calling sequence between the various components made the insertion of header stripping and compression both feasible and easy. The system is low maintenance, with no licence costs for implementation or ongoing support. All of this adds up to more money going to the places it should.
Community Aid Abroad and the vision to see open source as the future.
George installed the equipment in Dili and handled changes by remote control. Gordon Rowell for the stripped, compressed UUCP implementation which works under both the new Community Aid Abroad Qmail installations and an aged sendmail installation. Abroad who made sure everything got where it had to at the right time. Fran Boon, International Infrastructure Adviser for Oxfam GB, and Martin Maguire of Connect-Ireland Communications Ltd for organising the oxfam.org.tp domain in record time. Numerous other Community Aid Abroad volunteers, including Danny Yee, Chris Maltby and Peter Samuel for delivering on the tasks we gave them.