[NCUC E-team] Website Prototype Back

[Rafik Dammak]

Hi,

I concur with James about the operational side.
we got the NCUC website and several improvement were done at that time
basic member database etc by Tapani and he is continuing the support till
now. I guess it is good time to move to a next stage. it will be great to
get some feedback about the prototype and see where we can do some
improvement.

I am in favor of moving to more managed service since we cannot really
count only on volunteers to support the maintenance and operation. We need
to plan for the future and I don't think we can expect coming EC to have
the technical skills to manage NCUC server. the e-team will be there to
provide help and advisory role where moving operations .

for clarification, Maryam is tasked with providing admin support and not
full management of NCUC "IT services". I had some informal discussion with
Chris Gift from ICANN staff about additional IT service support for NCUC.
there is possibility to get such budget if we make it and having clear idea
about what we want exactly. That can be made with the coming FY17 special
budget request. On other hand, we should be cautious about being
increasingly becoming dependent of ICANN support. we have to find the
balance like using ICANN budget and NCUC funding. I also think the budget
for the membership system is going to be in yearly basis to include the
support and maintenance.

@James @Tapani can we think about assessing NCUC basic needs (including the
website and civicrm based membership system)  and also thinking about
possible services we may want to have too in future.

Best,

Rafik

2016-12-16 3:03 GMT+09:00 James Gannon <james at cyberinvasion.net>:

> Also on the CiviCRM topic, we need 100% to make sure we have a support
> contract from ICANN or the vendor for this if its going to be cascaded down
> to NCUC, I have managed CiviCRM before and its no small deal.
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> *From:* bkuerbis at gmail.com [mailto:bkuerbis at gmail.com] *On Behalf Of *Brenden
> Kuerbis
> *Sent:* Thursday, December 15, 2016 5:04 PM
> *To:* Ayden Férdeline <icann at ferdeline.com>
> *Cc:* James Gannon <james at cyberinvasion.net>; e-team NCUC <
> e-team at lists.ncuc.org>
> *Subject:* Re: [NCUC E-team] Website Prototype Back
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> Agree. I would just add that the role would actually require more skills
> than just website (i.e., Wordpress) administration. NCUC also needs someone
> experienced with general Linux admin, database management, and even
> familiarity with CiviCRM which NCSG will be bringing online in near future.
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> - Brenden
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> On Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 10:13 AM, Ayden Férdeline <icann at ferdeline.com>
> wrote:
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> It looks great, James. Though I will just add - now there are discussions
> around At-Large getting at least a 0.5 FTE website administrator, it might
> be worth exploring what this individual will be doing the rest of their
> working week - and can they be hired to help us, too, possibly?
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> - Ayden
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> From: james at cyberinvasion.net
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> To: e-team NCUC <e-team at lists.ncuc.org>
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> Hi All,
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> Just an FYI Rafik asked me to dig out the website prototype I did last
> year its available again on http://178.62.218.122 if anyone wants to have
> a browse.
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> -James
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