ITAdmin/Minutes2005Sept25


 * negativity towards bureaucratic B.S induces others to do work without consulting with the clients (whoever needs the product) in such a way that they produce something useless. Lesson: consult before you do.


 * maintenance issues: i.e. web-site was hacked (a game of cat and mouse)

All the stuff the IT stuff does, and who will do it

Open Source limitations:
 * Physical: OpenOffice is a resource hog
 * Social: people are used to using MS software, people need to open *.doc files, documentation is poor in many opensource projects.

Again:

DON'T CHANGE THINGS WITHOUT CONSULTING EVERYONE INVOLVED

Rough guide to content management choice:
 * for brainstorming, use wiki
 * for concise plans, use dotProject
 * for discussions, use phpBB
 * part of Admin's task is to flesh out these directives

Next meeting : Sunday, October 16th, 1-3:30pm

Project Description Status Tech Support Maintenance Administration

Admin
Setup and arrange for IT committee meetings; Manage and edit IT Administration on Wicki; Keep IT committee memberlist and mailing lists up to date

Committee Development
Present and past volunteers are looking for IT work, so creating an in-house job-getting guide would be a good idea

Koha
Online library catalogue system for the PERC library It's up, but not updated. Configuration difficult since there was no transfer of responsibility (last maintainer died

DotProject
has latest version customization difficult: i.e. loading customization makes you locked out

PHPWiki
legacy application, security problems, need migration to MediaWiki

MediaWiki
the new wiki system PERC is implementing and migrating to version 1.2.6

phpBB
forum software (bulletin board)

Mailman
open source listserv manager written in python

postNuke
Web portal system - integrates many services and makes it easier for no-IT people to manage a web page Slowly coming around - current problem is missing pages + we might switch off of multisite configuration

Custom groups database software
listing of activist groups in ottawa php, MySQL, was maintained by PERC volunteers

Samba
file sharing for the PERC computers network

Coyote Firewall
Sits between internet and server, runs off a floppy;needs occasional IP address updates

LDAP
Authentication system for login, could allow us to integrate all user/password logins into one login for all services

Office Software
Mostly windos based, there is a need to migrate to Open Source; review software and recommend on its suitabilty to PERC

Office Security
anti-virus, anti-spyware, firewall; review software and recommend on its suitability to PERC

Pegasus
e-mail client

Hardware
Receive new equipment, value equipment and give receipt, actively seeking new equipment; maintain all PERC IT Hardware, including computers, network, WAN, etc

Video editing
prepare for Machinima (creating plot-based videos with video games) use Machinima to create videos for training, issue presentation, learning separate boot needed for video editing on Lucretia

Events
Tatyana (needs to learn CSS and HTML)

May 2006 Update

 * Hardware - Lother
 * Fax, DNS, Firewall, mysql, Apache, sendmail, Samba, PHP - Krishna
 * LDAP, SSO Behzad, Mohamed
 * Postnuke Jon, Pat
 * Spambayse Mohammed
 * Admin Pat

Orphans

 * Mailman, Krishna PENDING
 * Mediawiki, PENDING
 * Phpwiki, Jon PENDING
 * phpBB2, Jon ACTIVE
 * Koha, Pat PENDING
 * dotproject, PENDING
 * Pegasus Augusto ACTIVE
 * Site Stats Behzade PENDING
 * Committee support, Augusto
 * Office Software, Augusto
 * Office Security Augusto
 * Photo Gallery, Pat
 * Backup PENDING

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