[NCUC Finance] Hosting the NCUC E-Platform

[Wilson Abigaba]

Dear Milton,

Thanks your answers and concerns.

On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 12:22 AM, Milton L Mueller <mueller at syr.edu> wrote:
> My understanding of the bylaws is that the Executive Committee approves expenditures. The FT is a planning team created recently, is not mentioned in the charter, and has no specific authority other than to recommend.
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> My advice would be to prepare a more specific proposal detailing requirements and costs and send it to the EC.
>

We'll send to the EC then, thanks! We cannot easily specify it in the
proposal because it varies (slightly) during the set-up and upon
checkout.

> One must be careful of ongoing expenditures, especially if they lock us in to anything that would be costly to get out of, but $400/year is certainly not out of reach.
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> It does seem a bit high (without knowing the requirements) as the current Ning site is $235/year but if VPS does something that normal hosting doesn't, I am sure you can convince EC to approve it.
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> Another item to be sure to address is how much manual maintenance and updating the new arrangement will require, who will - with ABSOLUTE reliability - take those responsibilities, how you will migrate all current materials to the new platform, and the absolute need for continuity, so don't create a technically demanding platform that no one will know how to deal with when this specific crew is gone.
>

The platform is technically demanding during initial set-up but after
that, (almost) everything will be by click of of a mouse.

I will add a little more detail in the proposal and send it to the EC.

Kind Regards,
Wilson