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

[Dina Solveig Jalkanen]

Hey,

owncloud seems like a good free option.

https://owncloud.org/features/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OwnCloud

I haven't maintained it, but, Tapani, how hard can that be? :-)

Solidarity,

thomas


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On 11.12.2017 16:48, Tapani Tarvainen wrote:
> 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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