[NCUC-EC] Decision on what remains of website/database budget

[farzaneh badii]

So here is the last invoice NCUC paid. It costs 336 USD per year
Farzaneh


On Wed, Jul 25, 2018 at 3:45 PM Renata Aquino Ribeiro <raquino at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi
>
> On the hosting payment, Brenden is the technical contact so gets the
> early warning, passed on the request to EC, which approved it last
> time.
>
> Tapani perhaps you can explain more about the move the VM and cost
> ideas both for the hosting and the VM?
>
> Thanks
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 25, 2018 at 4:42 PM, Renata Aquino Ribeiro
> <raquino at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > Thanks Farzaneh for the info.
> >
> > EC, I think we should have a plan to use the budget (even if it is to
> > be paid in installments and monitored by next leadership in
> > implementation)
> > Considering that it is not a guarantee that budget be allocated next
> year.
> >
> > Best,
> >
> > Renata
> >
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Jul 25, 2018 at 4:32 PM, farzaneh badii
> > <farzaneh.badii at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Hi Renata
> >>
> >> There will be no binding advice from NCSG and no need to report- this is
> >> NCUC budget and I don't know what you mean by you can access it easily.
> The
> >> money is there, you ask Maryam, Maryam tells you how to go about it (I
> was
> >> in the middle of writing this, and she just did). But I wonder how much
> your
> >> hosting costs? It was around 350 USD during my time, I think they moved
> to
> >> some VM and might be more now. and how long you want to pay for it into
> the
> >> future? The budget will not go away when the leadership changes. it will
> >> remain until January and if not used it will go to the next year I
> believe.
> >> Again you didn't have to ask me. Also whatever you spend this budget
> on, you
> >> should spend it on something that does not require too much time of the
> >> volunteers to update and sustain it.
> >>
> >> I think Brenden at the moment pays it and gets reimbursed. Believe
> nudging
> >> e-team is not a bad idea. Also if no budget is allocated to
> NCSG/NPOC/NCUC
> >> next year for membership management, you can use PIR money for all the
> >> groups for hosting. (but that's last resort)
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Farzaneh
> >>
> >>
> >> On Wed, Jul 25, 2018 at 3:05 PM Renata Aquino Ribeiro <
> raquino at gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Hi Tapani and Maryam
> >>>
> >>> I think it is a good idea to use the remainder of the budget to secure
> >>> NCUC has its hosting paid for some time into the future.
> >>>
> >>> EC, if you have no objection to this in 48h, we'll proceed on this
> >>> direction as there were no other suggestions
> >>>
> >>> Maryam, can you please let us know how do we access this budget and do
> >>> these payments as Tapani indicated?
> >>>
> >>> Farzaneh, do we have to send anything to NCSG, a report or something?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Thank you
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> [NCUC-EC] Decision on what remains of website/database budget
> >>>
> >>> Tapani Tarvainen ncuc at tapani.tarvainen.info
> >>> Fri Jul 20 22:43:55 CEST 2018
> >>>
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> >>>
> >>> Hi Renata, all,
> >>>
> >>> While the money was initially earmarked for member database only, it
> >>> has been approved for website maintenance as well (at least in part
> >>> because the solution CSG opted for includes it). Anything else is
> >>> uncertain, and in any case it'd be prudent to check with staff before
> >>> spending any of this money.
> >>>
> >>> One rather obvious use though would be the hosting of ncuc's virtual
> >>> machine (where ncuc's own website and mailing lists live). It's not
> >>> long ago when that was last paid, I'm not sure if even that could still
> >>> be reimbursed, but in the future it certainly could be covered by this.
> >>>
> >>> And I'll note that the VM is actually pretty low on disk space now,
> >>> usage 90%, so spending some money on that might be a good idea, too.
> >>>
> >>> Tapani
> >>>
> >>> On Fri, Jul 20, 2018 at 04:40:05PM -0300, Renata Aquino Ribeiro
> >>> (raquino at gmail.com) wrote:
> >>> >
> >>> > Dear EC
> >>> >
> >>> > As we have allocated 4k out of 9k to NCSG Membership database, there
> >>> > is a quantity which remains of the budget.
> >>> >
> >>> > NPOC had it allocated to its website.
> >>> >
> >>> > We have only 2 months until the end of the term of this leadership
> and
> >>> > I`m not sure if there will be easy access to this budget later.
> >>> >
> >>> > We have had a reasonable amount of success with our online
> activities.
> >>> > I think we could use a "networked database" for our members.
> Something
> >>> > like ICANNWiki but for profiles only.
> >>> >
> >>> > Anyhow this is just a 1st idea and not at all guaranteed that we can
> >>> > even access this budget but would be great if we could so we need to
> >>> > take a decision soon.
> >>> >
> >>> > Best,
> >>> >
> >>> > Renata
> >>>
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