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| - | ===== general todo ===== | + | ^ [L]UGs/SIG(s) etc. |
| - | * Get (more) detailed information (text blurbs, | + | ^[[https:// |
| - | * update website with the above | + | |d |
| - | * sf-lug.com (hosts new.balug.com) transitioning to new hardware box! | + | |y |
| - | * remote management/setup: KVM over IP? (Michael Paoli attempting to get resources for that; Cced Jim Stockford on communications). | + | |? | | |
| - | * obtained one remote KVM device 2007-11-01, have another remote KVM devices pledged to us/SF-LUG - need 501%%(c)%%(3) EIN for the second of those donations | + | |y |
| - | * 2007-10-28 - Michael Paoli e-mailed Andrew Fife regarding 501%%(c)%%(3) status (also checked earlier with Jim Stockford regarding possibly handling that via sfccp) | + | |d |
| - | * need to coordinate sf-lug.com./new.balug.org. hardware migration strategy (Michael Paoli, Jim Stockford, et. al.) | + | |i |
| - | * most recent indications are build of new box will be started sometime on/after 2007-10-29 | + | |y |
| - | * get more control into hands of webmaster(s), | + | |i |
| - | * more automagic updates of [www.]balug.org. from www.new.balug.org. | + | |? |
| - | * various staging/ | + | |? |
| - | * better ways for webmasters to control when updates occur and have more free reign with website (at least for testing purposes, anyway) | + | |p |
| - | * continue | + | |p |
| - | * survey the membership / meeting attendees? | + | |p |
| - | * continue to line up speaker(s)/presentation(s) more future meetings | + | |p |
| - | * In general, increasing moves to a more " | + | |p |
| - | * untangle.com. to provide virtual host - that should cover us pretty well in regards to redundancy/failovver | + | |p |
| - | * 2007-10-01 virtual host contact information passed along to Michael Paoli | + | |p |
| - | * 2007-10-21 Michael Paoli followed up with contact on initial questions (e.g. setup, options, etc.) | + | | |p |
| - | * Migration off of DreamHost.com - including salvaging all that's feasible and of significant interest | + | | |h |
| - | * control of and (eventual) migration of DNS ( | + | | | | |
| - | * Michael Paoli: e-mailed domain registrant on 2007-09-08 & 2007-09-30 | + | | | | |
| - | * Michael Paoli: left phone message(s) and e-mailed again on 2007-10-10 | + | | | | |
| - | * Mae Ling Mak may have e-mailed and/or called domain registrant 2007-10-14 | + | | | | |
| - | * received an e-mail | + | |
| - | * Michael Paoli: e-mailed domain registrant again on 2007-11-06 | + | |
| - | * need to follow-up as necessary to gain control of registrant and DNS delegation information | + | |
| - | * lists and list archives (including passwords, names, preferences, | + | |
| - | * lots of wiki pages that were functional there | + | |
| - | * presenter information, | + | |
| - | * meeting writeups/minutes of past several years | + | |
| - | * past approximately 3 years of BALUG history | + | |
| - | * (most) all the HTML page stuff | + | |
| - | * information for speakers | + | |
| - | * speaker coordination resources | + | |
| - | * spiffier information on directions to the meeting location | + | |
| - | * other useful resources and pages of information | + | |
| - | * etc.\\ ) | + | |
| - | * get regular off-site automated backups in place (covering absolutely everything BALUG has hosted on DreamHost.com., if feasible - e.g. including stuff that DreamHost.com only allows access to via MySQL client) | + | |
| - | * have some manual backups of some(/much/all?) of the content | + | |
| - | * new landing places for stuff moved/extracted off of DreamHost.com | + | |
| - | * beta.balug.org. - where should that be? (at least thus far and temporarily, | + | |
| - | * sf-lug.com. box (and the major migration/upgrade of that to a new box!) | + | |
| - | * BALUG has an IP (208.96.15.254) for its use on that box | + | |
| - | * basic new web infrastructure exists | + | |
| - | * As of 2007-09-01 some http://www.new.balug.org/ web content | + | |
| - | * increase the automated | + | |
| - | * Mailman | + | |
| - | * BALUG needs to create its own e-mail infrastructure off of 208.96.15.254 (not yet in place, other than the sf-lug.com. box has been reconfigured so it' | + | |
| - | * wiki - sf-lug.com. has a wiki configured for it (and BALUG is using some of that) ... but don't yet have such configured separately for BALUG (under it's own IP address and DNS names and such) - so, the BALUG stuff that's there so far may not be at all in it's " | + | |
| - | * DreamHost.com content extraction | + | |
| - | * Any PHP and MySQL volunteers? (As of 2007-09-24 we've started to get at least some volunteer(s) to step forward on that.) BALUG could use assistance/ | + | |
| - | * List archives and subscribers, | + | |
| - | * automate backups of this data, as complete as feasible | + | |
| - | * it's presently being done approximately monthly manually (last done 2007-10-21); | + | |
| - | * optimal extraction/ | + | |
| - | * Older web content (most notably many wiki pages) | + | |
| - | * "just in case" backup of raw data - may have some(/ | + | |
| - | * optimal extraction/migration | + | |
| - | * DNS phased migration off of DreamHost.com | + | |
| - | * have created new.balug.org. and beta.balug.org. (including slave(s)) | + | |
| - | * start phased change of balug.org. (get registrar control, add NS records for balug.org.) | + | |
| - | * add slaves for balug.org. (have queued up good volunteer slave resources once we can allow them to do zone transfers) | + | |
| - | * continue to maintain balug.org. zone in mode compatible with DreamHost.com until fully migrated off of DreamHost.com (work in progress | + | |
| - | * e-mail | + | |
| - | * The @balug.org e-mail addresses are mostly fairly managed at this point - have functional forwarding aliases in place, have the information on the expansion of the aliases also on the sf-lug.com. box. Main thing missing from @balug.org is reasonable spam filtering | + | |
| - | This list originally based upon some earlier partial lists / status reports, e.g.:\\ | + | Note that this is intended to be not //just// for BALUG, but in addition to BALUG, ...\\ |
| - | [[http://lists.balug.org/ | + | [Linux] User Groups ([L]UG)s |
| - | [[http://lists.balug.org/ | + | Notably covering in addition to BALUG, those also sharing or also using BALUG Virtual Machine (VM)\\ |
| + | and/or having other common/overlapping interest(s) where it's been thought appropriate to list them here.\\ | ||
| - | ===== Steering Committee ===== | + | Priority ordering ... Sort of kind of: |
| - | 2007-10-01T12:00:00-0700 Conference Call | + | * higher/ |
| + | * dependencies may be listed before that which depends upon them | ||
| + | * available resources / volunteers | ||
| + | * key (multiple may be used): | ||
| + | * ~~SP~~ (blank/ | ||
| + | * - no | ||
| + | * ? maybe | ||
| + | * d done | ||
| + | * f future(?) | ||
| + | * h hold (on hold ... for reason(s) or lack of resource(s)). | ||
| + | * i in-progress / incomplete | ||
| + | * n no | ||
| + | * o overlap | ||
| + | * p proposed | ||
| + | * y yes | ||
| - | ==== Agenda ==== | + | There' |
| - | -__**The Big Plan**__ | + | Nevertheless, older listing |
| - | * BALUG in general | + | or done when there' |
| - | * sponsorships/ | + | So ... [[https://www.wiki.balug.org/wiki/doku.php?id=balug: |
| - | * general direction, plans, and vision for BALUG? | + | and of course |
| - | -**__BALUG Web & Email Issues__** | + | |
| - | * beta.balug.org - where, objectives, participants, | + | |
| - | * longer term Internet plans (redundancy, | + | |
| - | * Website | + | |
| - | -Do we have access/own all of the resources that we need? | + | |
| - | * not yet: | + | |
| - | * need to get full control of DNS (Michael Paoli/Mae Ling Mak following up on this) | + | |
| - | * redundancy/ | + | |
| - | *What are BALUG' | + | |
| - | -System & Storage? | + | |
| - | -Physical Access? | + | |
| - | -Bandwidth? | + | |
| - | -Can we move forward without the old broke mysql stuff? | + | |
| - | * yes and no: | + | |
| - | * yes - we've got beta.balug.org. - can put it anywhere we want and use it as long as we want | + | |
| - | * no: | + | |
| - | * unless we want a gaping hole in BALUG' | + | |
| - | * we can't smoothly transition the lists without doing some well timed and coordinated mysql extracts and loads. | + | |
| - | -Anyone opposed to a hosted wysiwyg solution like sitekreator.com? | + | |
| - | * yeah, I'm not keen on the idea: | + | |
| - | * Haven' | + | |
| - | * " | + | |
| - | * do we really want to be subject to terms that aren't under our control and can be changed at any time without notice, and be agreed to the terms in advance? | + | |
| - | * various folks might also object on various " | + | |
| - | -How can we implement an RSVP system for events? | + | |
| - | * for now: simple e-mail alias (That' | + | |
| - | * future: snazzier web form, with reminder option(s), etc. | + | |
| - | * Should reminders be optional? | + | |
| - | * we probably want to avoid some 3rd party system that folks may not particularly trust and/or that may have terms some or many may find objectionable (e.g. many folks don't want their e-mail addresses made available to yet another 3rd party site that may end up leading to spam or unwanted promotional e-mails, etc.) | + | |
| - | * we probably need to consistently " | + | |
| - | -__**[[Event Communications]]**__ | + | |
| - | * Which lists/locations? | + | |
| - | -Internal BALUG mailing lists | + | |
| - | -External UG mailing lists | + | |
| - | -RSS from the website? | + | |
| - | * feasibility & implementation timing? | + | |
| - | * perhaps in the future, but not yet | + | |
| - | -iCal and/or similar notification/ | + | |
| - | -Flyers | + | |
| - | -Member blogs | + | |
| - | -Speaker blogs | + | |
| - | -Event listing websites | + | |
| - | -Social Networking: Facebook, MySpace, others? | + | |
| - | -__**Speaker Coordination**__ | + | |
| - | * What is our goal... driving meeting attendance or supporting local causes? (JS: entertain and/or enlighten members attending the meeting, not either driving meeting attendance, which should result from entertain/enlighten, nor support any particular cause other than general free and open source -ness.) | + | |
| - | * How to ensure that we don't double book speaking slots? | + | |
| - | * Update | + | |
| - | * also use < | + | |
| - | * Best Practices Guide for Speakers | + | |
| - | * did a quite good page of that before; it's still to be extracted from the old BALUG wiki stuff (and no, I don't feel like writing up all that work again, but if someone else wants to, feel free; we can always reintegrate useful bits from the older materials into a newer writeup once we've retrieved the older materials) | + | |
| - | -__**Event Logistics**__ | + | |
| - | * Update from Mae Ling on the Four Seas | + | |
| - | -Menu Changes | + | |
| - | *Number of dishes won't change | + | |
| - | *Variety will change & rotate monthly between 4 entrees from the beef, pork, chicken & veggie menu items (yum!) | + | |
| - | *Menu will rotate monthly between noodles & rice, both of which will be veggie (yum!) | + | |
| - | -50+ people, we can eat upstairs (how to forecast this?) | + | |
| - | -No more Musical Chairs (yippie!) | + | |
| - | *Portions of food will be determined by the number of blue tickets instead of by number of people sitting at the table | + | |
| - | -Feb. 2008 - 2008-02-19 - any conflicts between date, venue, and Chinese New Year? No, we're all clear on that date (and in 2009). | + | |
| - | * Name tags? - probably, but need to be sure we do it in a time efficient manner (e.g. don't slow up dinner to do name tags!) | + | |
| - | * Address bottlenecks: | + | |
| - | -Sitting down for dinner promptly - at 7:00 P.M.! | + | |
| - | -Selling dinner tickets - in bar, upon arrival - or certainly before leaving bar area | + | |
| - | -Late comers | + | |
| - | -Musical Chairs | + | |
| - | -Dinner to speaker transition - works better if we dine upstairs; short of that, timely start on dinner helps a lot | + | |
| - | -Door Prizes - speed it up - draw at most for 3 items | + | |
| - | * How can we improve the AV equipment? | + | |
| - | -Portable Projector (Can borrow from Untangle, Speaker is bringing his own for October) | + | |
| - | -Portable Screen (About $300) (that might be okay for 25 folks, but when we have 50+ folks would a portable screen even help us at all?) | + | |
| - | * Time for community announcements, | + | |
| - | * Publicizing the next event: __**[[Event Communications]]**__ | + | |
| - | -__**Finances**__ | + | |
| - | * setting up a bank account | + | |
| - | * via USENIX/ | + | |
| - | * via ??? | + | |
| - | * via Jim Stockford? | + | |
| - | * budget | + | |
| - | -__**Mailing Lists**__ | + | |
| - | * Keeping Mailing Lists Useful | + | |
| - | *this has mostly been a non-issue so far: | + | |
| - | *the Mailman list software is pretty good at detecting and snagging spam | + | |
| - | *" | + | |
| - | *" | + | |
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