Photo by purdman1 on Flickr.

You may have noticed that Greater Greater Washington has been sporadically inaccessible over the last week or so. Unfortunately, our server and dated code running the site are starting to fall over. It’s probably time (or past time) to switch over to a new platform.

To do that, we will need help from our readers with experience in this area. Right now, the site runs on code I wrote myself many years ago, on a pair of Unix servers whose mysql and other software is getting pretty out of date. We’ve been talking for some time about just switching to a modern blog platform on a more full-service host, though that’s not the only option.

Do you have expertise with installing, maintaining, and/or theming WordPress or other blog platforms, with Unix and/or mysql system administration, or other technical aspects of keeping a blog running? If you can help out either by just participating in some conference calls to talk through the issues or, even better, roll up your sleeves to help get some of it done, please email info@ggwash.org.

Thanks!

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David Alpert created Greater Greater Washington in 2008 and was its executive director until 2020. He formerly worked in tech and has lived in the Boston, San Francisco Bay, and New York metro areas in addition to Washington, DC. He lives with his wife and two children in Dupont Circle.