[iaoa-infrastructure] first meeting minutes

[Ken Baclawski]

As requested, I have written a report on hosting services.

Best regards,

-- Ken

On Wed, Jan 17, 2018 at 10:44 AM, Laure Vieu <vieu at irit.fr> wrote:

> These are not proper minutes. only my own notes rearranged afterwards
> and without time marks.
>
> - I'm bad at capuring what is being said
> - I didn't start soaphub so we used the chat in zoom and this chat was
> lost when the session ended :-(
>
> anyway, here they are.
> obviously anyone is invited to add what I have missed/misinterpreted
>
> best,
> Laure
>
> --------------------
>
> starting: 4 people Ken, Oliver, Valter, Laure
> Amanda, Jao Paulo, Frank cannot join.
>
> 1-gathering issues
>
> -------
> A- finalizing the new web site made by the Brazilian company   A.1
> issues raised by Amanda in testing the web site cf. [1] [I realise I'm
> not able to access the message archives and so cannot just add a link to
> the mssg, and most probably this is the case of several of us, as well
> for the Google doc created by Amanda. to be fixed]     A.2 login/pwd
> access management to member's area     A.3 modification of scripts
> handling registration and payments              - connexion between new
> web site
> and scripts             - connexion with the new bank systems           -
> testing the
> whole thing B- possible enhancements to what was planned and built, in
> particular in view of what Ken has set up cf. [2] C- moving from
> LOA-UNITN hosting to commercial hosting        C1 listing and assessing
> possible hosting sites          Godaddy                 Aruba C2 choosing
> one and
> ordering/paying        C3 moving the site and testing the whole thing
> --------
>
> Add Issue: who will do website maintance
> 2 sorts : technical / contents
> long term: mostly content administrator
>
> Ken willing to do the technical administrator
>
> Content administrator to be discussed with whole EC
>
> --issue A2
> Add: access to IOS Press
> "referer" method
> otherwise : WordPress login
>
> (security issues with the current referer method)
>
> NB: the referer page is a static page NOT within the WordPress structure
>
> Decision: keep referer solution (working, easy to maintain)
>
> Valter: find a possible solution to import iaoa username/passwords
> inside wordpress.
>
> It seems that the new website has already a correct access to the
> member's area ( referer system, using Valter's scripts, outside WordPress)
>
> Valter will check if the member access needs fixing
>
> --issue A3
> Valter needs to modify his scripts because based on Apache-security, to
> move to WordPress-security
> Ken: it shouldn't be a problem
>
> --issue C
> (lost chat: getting out of current host, UNITN, need to split anyway the
> server shared with LOA for technical reasons)
>
> Ken's suggestion for hosting: Digital Ocean
> Laure & Valter's suggestion: Aruba
> https://hosting.aruba.it/en/hosting/linux-windows-hosting-plans.aspx
>
> Ken will investigate Aruba vs Digital Ocean?
> (GoDaddy much more expensive)
>
> Valter: We need 2 websites 1 normal and 1 secure
> [LV: ??]
>
> ---issue B
> Ken presents the features of the new proposal, to be decided to
> integrate them in the new website
> Many nice features very easy to implement
> Integrating other blogs (eg Ontolog forum, SIG blogs)
> Adding pictures of people
>
>
> Calendar : hopefully we can establish the connexion with the bank
> account (issue A3) in February (?)
> but waiting first for the bank account to open
>
> Next meeting:
> Focus on A1 + B
> need to have Amanda (and possibly JaoPaolo) in the meeting.
> Try next week same time but Amanda is a must, so any time good for her
>
> Some of the decisions regarding content structure should be brought up
> to the EC
>
> use zoom + Chat with Soaphub next time!
>
>
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