[Board] Permission to move the website to Ideal Solution hosting

[john guest]

I'd second this, 'cept I'm not a board member.  Patricia?  Susan?
Jordan?  Marcus? Garrett?  Bueller?  :-)

--John

On 5/15/07, chuck child <chuck.child at gmail.com> wrote:
> I agree that this is a board issue, and so per normal rules:
>
> I Nominate this issue for an immediate online vote.
>
> Any second?
>
>
> On 5/14/07, Matt Arnold <matt.mattarn at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Board,
> >
> > I might be incorrect, in that I consider this to be a Penguicon 6.0
> > issue rather than a multiple-year issue. But I'll bring it to you to
> > check. Penguicon needs a new public brochure site, and it needed it
> > last week at the latest. I have put it up on a test site here:
> >
> > http://www.nemorathwald.com/penguicon/
> >
> > It aggregates the Penguicon livejournal community and other
> > Penguicon-related RSS feeds. It will be the software that delivers the
> > Penguicon podcast as well. Also, it gives the site a greatly-needed
> > spring cleaning and simplification.
> >
> > We have a narrow window to retain eyeballs from the excitement of
> > Penguicon and keep them coming back to the site all year long. The
> > window is closing, if it hasn't mostly closed already. This is
> > severely time-sensitive, and the concom/Board meeting is scheduled too
> > late to take action on this, to strike while the iron is hot.
> >
> > If not all of the Board members have kept up on this issue, that's OK,
> > because it's a 6.0 issue rather than multi-year. However, the question
> > of a web-hosting service might be considered multi-year. That's open
> > to opinion.
> >
> > Hosting has to be considered because I've got the Wordpress software
> > set up on my webspace at Ideal Solution. My company, Ideal Solution,
> > will host our site for cheaper than we're paying now, and with better
> > reliability. They will certainly have better customer service as well,
> > because they're all Penguicon guys, including of course me.
> >
> > At the home of Jer Lance, in front of the President of the Board Chuck
> > Child, I got our conchair, Gerald Gentry, and the webmaster of my
> > Communications department, Ron Blanchett, all in agreement that we
> > should move forward with this immediately. I double and triple checked
> > their assent before I let anybody leave the house. Now Ron wants your
> > approval first before he'll switch the hosting service. May we have
> > it? Sorry that I can't wait for the board meeting.
> >
> > -Matt
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