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

• reddit software. https://github.com/reddit/
• https://open.vanillaforums.com/download
• https://mybb.com/
• https://github.com/reddit/reddit
• https://riot.im/
• https://www.phpbb.com/
• https://about.mattermost.com/
• https://rocket.chat/ - heard about it from CAPP
• slack

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:

• Minimal babysitting
• 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
• Works with our hosting provider
• Ability to show people what is happening locally, regionally and statewide