[NCUC E-team] Website Prototype Back

[James Gannon]

For the website I have offered previously to organize hosting on AWS which if we setup correctly can be very low maintenance if we do the initial setup correctly (i.e clicking update in the WordPress instance, everything else is handled by AWS) and is also something I can offer training on.

Offer stands.

-J
From: Rafik Dammak [mailto:rafik.dammak at gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2016 11:39 PM
To: James Gannon <james at cyberinvasion.net>
Cc: Brenden Kuerbis <bkuerbis at internetgovernance.org>; Ayden Férdeline <icann at ferdeline.com>; e-team NCUC <e-team at lists.ncuc.org>
Subject: Re: [NCUC E-team] Website Prototype Back

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<mailto: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.

From: bkuerbis at gmail.com<mailto:bkuerbis at gmail.com> [mailto:bkuerbis at gmail.com<mailto:bkuerbis at gmail.com>] On Behalf Of Brenden Kuerbis
Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2016 5:04 PM
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Subject: Re: [NCUC E-team] Website Prototype Back

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.

- Brenden

On Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 10:13 AM, Ayden Férdeline <icann at ferdeline.com<mailto:icann at ferdeline.com>> wrote:
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?

- Ayden


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Hi All,

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<http://178.62.218.122/> if anyone wants to have a browse.

-James



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