This phased concerned itself with the contracting of and setup of the system that will be used for the event.
This was scheduled to be 90% complete by March 1, and 95% complete by April 1.
Actual dates are as follows:
The target system was made available to us after three weeks of delays by the subcontract on March 2. It was 90% configured by March 9, 2001.
The 95% mark was completed on schedule, by April 1, with web servers, database servers, domain name servers, and email servers setup and configured.
On April 24, the subcontracted informed us that they would like to change the IP address1. This would result in improved connectivity and performance to us.
The subcontractor provided us with adequate notice of the change and our choice of transition times. The transfer (which involved movement of a physical cable) was done at 10am on April 26. The new IP address was used for the event.
As part of the system setup an open source project was created on http://www.SourceForge.net, an open source development hosting system. The project can be accessed at http://www.SourceForge.net/projects/ccgpc by anyone needing such a system, and contributions can also be accepted. This makes Commuter Challenge's GNU Potato Caboose owned by the community.
The system setup took a total of 73 hours.