[BLU/Officers] Face to face meeting

[John Abreau]

I'll also be at Arisia.


On Mon, Dec 23, 2019 at 1:57 PM David Kramer <david at thekramers.net> wrote:

> I could do that on the 15th but I'll be at Arisia on the 20th still.
> On 12/23/19 1:41 PM, Kurt Keville wrote:
>
> 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.
>>
>> --
>> Jerry Feldman <gaf at gapps.blu.org>
>> Boston Linux and Unix
>> PGP key id: 537C5846
>> PGP Key fingerprint: 3D1B 8377 A3C0 A5F2 ECBB  CA3B 4607 4319 537C 5846
>>
>> 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
>>>
>>>
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> Officers mailing listOfficers at blu.orghttp://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/officers
>>>
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> Officers mailing list
>>> Officers at lists.blu.org
>>> http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/officers
>>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Officers mailing list
>> Officers at lists.blu.org
>> http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/officers
>>
> _______________________________________________
> Officers mailing list
> Officers at lists.blu.org
> http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/officers
>


-- 
John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix
Email: abreauj at gmail.com / WWW http://www.abreau.net / PGP-Key-ID 0x920063C6
PGP-Key-Fingerprint A5AD 6BE1 FEFE 8E4F 5C23  C2D0 E885 E17C 9200 63C6
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.blu.org/pipermail/officers/attachments/20191223/5a14eb7e/attachment-0001.html>