[NCUC E-team] an intranet for NCUC - was this ever discussed?

[Tapani Tarvainen]

Hi Renata,

There are obviously different needs and one solution may not fit all.

E.g., for e-team it would be useful to have a non-public channel for
handling with security issues (possible breaches, technical details of
security-related settings &c) and for that a non-publicly archived mailing
list could work well. On the other hand some intranet-like space for
documenting things properly would also be useful and for that protected
Wordpress pages might be good.

As for an intranet-like interface, perhaps it would be worthwhile to
look at potentially suitable Wordpress plugins, if the basic
functionality isn't enough. Like one of these:

https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/file-sharing/

(I haven't looked at them in any detail nor have any experience
with any of them.)

Tapani


On Sun, Dec 10, 2017 at 05:35:18PM -0300, Renata Aquino Ribeiro (raquino at gmail.com) wrote:
> 
> Hi Tapani
> 
> Yup, the different levels of permission here would be the deal breaker
> for a list solution, I think.
> Even if we don't "need" different access, we need different
> organizational structure
> i.e. a folder for treasury
> a folder for selection calls
> a folder for e-team data
> 
> A folder or a page
> 
> In case of a page w/ linked docs, yes, Wordpress could work
> 
> But I think pulling in from the site (or linked at the site) could not
> be secure enough
> 
> So maybe a free wordpress
> 
> But still I think something like a virtual drive w/ an intranet "home"
> like interface would be better
> 
> Do others SO/ACs have anything of this kind?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> On Sun, Dec 10, 2017 at 3:08 PM, Tapani Tarvainen
> <ncuc at tapani.tarvainen.info> wrote:
> > One very simple option would be a mailing list with non-public
> > archive (archives open only to subscribers with password).
> > That would not require any new software.
> > One feature that would not provide is the time limit, but
> > automatically removing archives after a specified amount of
> > time would not be hard to do.
> > And it could not handle multiple levels of permission either,
> > just on/off for members/non-members.
> >
> > Alternatively, Wordpress can be used to set up restricted content,
> > visible only to selected users with password. That would be slightly
> > more difficult, depending on the complexity of permissions needed.
> >
> > And of course there're any number of intranet solutions that
> > could be installed, even free ones, but amount of work needed
> > would be ... variable.
> >
> > Tapani
> >
> > On Sun, Dec 10, 2017 at 01:59:55PM -0300, Renata Aquino Ribeiro (raquino at gmail.com) wrote:
> >>
> >> Dear E-Team
> >>
> >> I'm considering organizing a few documents of NCUC which should be
> >> non-public in an online locus somewhere
> >>
> >> Treasurer's reports, candidates call deliberations
> >>
> >> Things which can be shared only by EC or leadership or by specific
> >> groups (i.e. data relevant to e-team only), things which are to be
> >> kept for a certain amount of time only (i.e. candidate deliberation
> >> calls)...
> >>
> >> I thought the best place for this could probably be an intranet, w/
> >> levels of permission
> >>
> >> Given we are always on a "poor person budget", we need "poor person" solution
> >>
> >> So my initial thought was Google Drive
> >>
> >> Also considered ICANN Wiki protected pages
> >>
> >> I am now leaning towards a non-proprietary or non-politically
> >> complicated solution, clearly none of the above
> >>
> >> Was something like this ever considered/discussed?
> >>
> >> Were experiments made? What was their result?
> >>
> >> Does e-team have any suggestion how to move forward?
> >>
> >> Thanks
> >>
> >> Renata
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Tapani Tarvainen