Greetings,

What is the currently active VMS hobbyist license site?

Thanks,

-jav

On 15-8-2011 11:59, Javier Henderson wrote:
> What is the currently active VMS hobbyist license site?

The OpenVMS Hobbyist Program, which can be found here:
<http://www.vmshobbyist.org>
(Although, at the moment of writing, it appears to be down...?)

I assume you already tried <http://www.openvmshobbyist.org>?
The domain name was lost because it wasn't re-registered on time,
from what I understood.

  - MG

MG wrote:
> On 15-8-2011 11:59, Javier Henderson wrote:
>> What is the currently active VMS hobbyist license site?
> 
> The OpenVMS Hobbyist Program, which can be found here:
> <http://www.vmshobbyist.org>
> (Although, at the moment of writing, it appears to be down...?)
> 
> I assume you already tried <http://www.openvmshobbyist.org>?
> The domain name was lost because it wasn't re-registered on time,
> from what I understood.

<http://www.montagar.com/hobbyist/> seems to be working.

On 15-8-2011 13:57, Craig A. Berry wrote:
> <http://www.montagar.com/hobbyist/> seems to be working.

It's not the same site though, unfortunately.  For one thing, it
lacks the PAK registration forms (and other things, like the forum
and so forth).

  - MG

"MG" <marcogbNO@SPAMxs4all.nl> wrote in message 
news:4e490ef4$0$23841$e4fe514c@news2.news.xs4all.nl...
> On 15-8-2011 13:57, Craig A. Berry wrote:
>> <http://www.montagar.com/hobbyist/> seems to be working.
>
> It's not the same site though, unfortunately.  For one thing, it
> lacks the PAK registration forms (and other things, like the forum
> and so forth).
>
>  - MG

The addresses, according to openvms.org are:

Due to some Domain name trouble the OpenVMS Hobbyist web site is available 
at a slightly different address
www.vmshobbyist.org
and
www.vmshobbyist.com
www.vmshobbyist.net
(the Open always was silent anyway :-) )
Please update your links.


It appears that there is some sort of server issue...

Bill. 

MG wrote:
> On 15-8-2011 13:57, Craig A. Berry wrote:
>> <http://www.montagar.com/hobbyist/> seems to be working.
> 
> It's not the same site though, unfortunately.  

True. This is the old site from before any of the hobbyist-specific
domains existed. However, it now seems to be redirecting back to
<http://www.openvmshobbyist.com/news.php>, which is now working.

> For one thing, it lacks the PAK registration forms

False. The old site has a link labeled "License Register" which leads to
<http://www.montagar.com/hobbyist/register_license.html>.  However, that
seems not to be working at the moment, or perhaps has been (partially) 
decommissioned.

> (and other things, like the forum and so forth).

Possibly true.  I hadn't noticed.

The site is back, excellent!


On 16-8-2011 1:56, Craig A. Berry wrote:
> False. The old site has a link labeled "License Register" which leads to
> <http://www.montagar.com/hobbyist/register_license.html>. However, that
> seems not to be working at the moment, or perhaps has been (partially)
> decommissioned.

That must have been for quite some time then, is my guess, because I
never managed to register PAKs via that page (only at the following
page: <http://www.openvmshobbyist.com/licenses.php>).


> Possibly true. I hadn't noticed.

Well, I can't find it there; maybe you can?  I'm of course referring to
the following forum: <http://www.openvmshobbyist.com/forum>

  - MG