[BLU/Officers] Face to face meeting

[Kurt Keville]

Can you meet on a weekday? Just make a long day of it on Jan 15 ? Or Jan
20, which is a fed holiday?

On Mon, Dec 23, 2019 at 12:47 PM Jerry Feldman <gaf at gapps.blu.org> wrote:

> I do agree that we should meet face to face. While I get free gas I don't
> mind driving across the world the North Attleboro.
>
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> On Mon, Dec 23, 2019, 12:22 PM David Kramer <david at thekramers.net> wrote:
>
>> 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 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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