Services

VTLUUG runs a number of services to support the Virginia Tech community. Since we don't charge dues, our hardware is funded entirely through any student organization funding we can get, so we are significantly limited in the services we can provide. However, we accept server and hard drive donations through departmental transfers; the process for doing so is documented on our wiki.

Current services

Cool new stuff:

• VTLUUG Search, an instance of the 4get metasearch engine
• TheLounge, a modern WebIRC
• Gitea, a user-friendly git server
• Matrix homeserver with limited registration
• Element, a Matrix client
• Nikonwormhole, an Adguard DNS blackhole for the VT campus

Long-term and infrastructure-critical services:

• Free VPS instances for members, with publically-accessible IPv4 addresses.
• Debian shell accounts, complete with @vtluug.org email and web hosting!
• Functional IPA/LDAP for vtluug services
• VT Bash, a Virginia Tech QDB
• A wiki for Virginia Tech, Gobblerpedia
• A wiki for technical information about Virginia Tech and our own work
• Hokie Privacy, an outreach project documenting surveillance on-campus

Planned services

Services we plan to expand or begin to provide in the near future include:

• A mirror with more distributions
• Privacy frontends, like invidious or nitter
• Whatever you can dream up! We have plenty of infrastructure, and it loves to get used.

Unmaintained services

We currently have a number of unmaintained services that are broken and in need of adoption. If you're interested in volunteering as a maintainer for one, please contact officers@vtluug.org or reach out to us via IRC.

Current broken or out-of-date services include:

• A detailed map of campus, Blacksburg, and the surrounding area
• Mirroring Linux and Unix distributions
• Git hosting
• A Tor intermediate relay
• Full IPv6 support
• A finger server for Kerberos accounts (on acidburn)