View source for January 21st, 2017 IT Meeting

= Agenda =

* Introductions
* Tutorials/Skill Share
** How to upgrade drupal/civi
** How to upgrade wordpress
** using git for backups
* To-do Projects
* Discussions
** Offsite Backups
* Future Projects
** Building a voter record CSV import
** Adding crypto currency donations
** Cycling passwords
** Message board
** Voting system
* Wrap up

= Notes =

We discussed the project of setting up a builtin board/discussion board system.  Potential candidates

* phpbb
* reddit software. https://github.com/reddit/
* some other forum board
* vanilla forums

The reddit/subreddit approach could support natural forms of growth.
If (say) on particular area becomes dominant, you can break that off
into a subreddit.


Our list of requirements:

* ability to integrate with anti-spam accounts (e.g. Akismet)
* ability to detected spam accounts (never had arcticles accepted for posting)
* ease of account creation.  Should be easy to create accounts.  Low friction to sign up
* ability to have different discussion groups
* FOSS
* anti-harrassment facilities.  (e.g., Person A doesn't want to see posts from person B)
* should be able to self-host.  This is a preference more than a hard requirement