[BLU/Officers] Face to face meeting

[David Kramer]

Because I am IT Chairman of Agile New England and handle all their IT, 
I've been researching password managers that are designed for teams.  I 
think that's a much better solution than yet another geographically 
locked solution that will only be accessible by 1 or 2 people with 
physical keys.

Back to the start of the thread, we kinda dropped organizing this 
meeting, which I think should happen.  Even if we pick late January I 
think we should pick that date in the next week or two so it actually 
happens.

On 12/8/19 2:15 AM, Bill Horne wrote:
> On 12/7/2019 3:41 PM, Jerry Feldman wrote:
>> I was talking to Kurt, Bill Ricker and David Kramer. We have a few 
>> issues. Such as
>> It might be time where we should retire the hardware and virtualized. 
>> I'll try to talk to the guy at Synoptek.
> I've been using prgmr.com for years, and I recommend them. My yearly 
> server rental is about $120, but you'll probably want more bandwidth 
> for a BLU server.
>> Also, we need backups for each of us as we are all aging. One issue 
>> is if John goes away, we wont have access to the domain. (Maybe 
>> blu.org <http://blu.org> should be owned by a corporation). And 
>> management of the server and web site. We probably should use https.
>
> I think everyone in the leadership should write out a list of 
> applicable user id's and passwords, and put them in a safe-deposit box 
> or fire safe that two or three people can access: if blu decides on a 
> more formal arrangement, lawyers will store them for a nominal fee. As 
> a practical matter, almost all Domain Name services like GoDaddy can 
> change a domain's details with only a User ID and password, so there's 
> little need to incorporate just as a placeholder for a domain name: 
> incorporation is expensive, and it requires yearly reports and tax 
> filings, so I'd avoid it if it were up to me.
>
> I don't feel that paying for SSL certificates is in the BLU's best 
> interest: all they do is close the "lock" icon on the browsers that 
> access the site. I know that browser designers shill for the X.509 
> industry, by putting "insecure" warnings on http-only sites, but I 
> think there are still some free SSL certs available if the BLU decides 
> it's essential.
>
> That's my 2¢. YMMV.
>
> Bill Horne
>
>
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