Hi Michael - great to see.

Can I suggest a few mirror targets to investigate which would be appreciated.

* Armbian (non Raspberi Pi SBC builds) - https://www.armbian.com/#contact , main download site https://dl.armbian.com/ )

* openhabian/openhab - Openhab for SBC's ; particular lacking in mirrors currently there is only one beta repo FWIK - couldn't find a particular link regarding becoming a mirror)

* Gentoo (currently no NZ mirror https://www.gentoo.org/downloads/mirrors/ )

* KDE (Again no NZ mirror currently https://download.kde.org/extra/download-mirrors.html )

* Cygwin (There is the university of Canterbury that is well known - but I find this is spottily updated)

On 29 June 2018 at 10:44, Michael Fincham <michael@hotplate.co.nz> wrote:

Morning all,

Back in 2016 you may remember me griping at the list about wanting better mirrors in NZ for various free and open source software projects.

Since then I and a few others (particular thanks to James and Brad) have been slowly working away at improving this situation.

We're now running a dual stacked, two node mirror deployment in NZ using anycast, with bandwidth and rackspace sponsored by REANNZ and hardware sponsored by Insomnia Security and Catalyst.

As of today we've picked up our first offical mirroring gig (we're now providing the official New Zealand mirror for OpenBSD), but we already have a number of unofficial mirrors available.

Curently we're providing local mirrors of:

Alpine�� �� �� �� �� ��
Arch Linux�� �� �� �� ��
CentOS
Debian�� �� �� �� �� ��
Debian CDs�� �� �� �� ��
epel�� �� �� �� �� �� ��
Kali�� �� �� �� �� �� ��
OpenBSD�� �� �� �� �� ��
Raspbian�� �� �� �� ��
The GNU source archive�� �� �� �� �� ��
Ubuntu�� �� �� �� �� ��
Ubuntu CDs

For more information you can have a look at our website, <https://fsmg.org.nz> or just browse the mirror repository directly at <https://mirror.fsmg.org.nz>.

We also have a few unofficial statistics available at <https://mirror.fsmg.org.nz/.fsmg/nodes/wlglam/> and <https://mirror.fsmg.org.nz/.fsmg/nodes/hlzmel/> for those who're curious.

We're on Freenode at #fsmg if you've got any questions or want to discuss the project.

Heaps of thanks to those who've supported us so far, and we will be working to become official mirrors for more of the projects listed above, to make sure NZ has fast and reliable local copies of important open source and free software.

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Michael
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