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

Wed May 16 09:13:54 CDT 2007

I'm taking the departmental aspects of this matter off list with my
staff. According to Gerald, departments are intended to decide as much
as possible internally without increasing the Conchair's workload, to
say nothing of getting the Board involved.

As for the matters which do concern the Board level, I'm currently
confirming the answers to the hosting questions Ron asked. I'll see if
we can implement Wordpress on our existing hosting space in the
meantime.

-Matt

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Ron Blanchett <rrcb21 at yahoo.com>
Date: May 15, 2007 10:18 PM
Subject: Re: [Board] Permission to move the website to Ideal Solution hosting
To: Penguicon Board Discussion List <board at penguicon.org>

I have had reservations about this every time Matt has brought it up to me.
Matt indicated below that I "agreed" to move forward with this, I
don't remember ever doing this.
I do remember our discussion about it and I do remember telling him at the time
that I agreed that it might be time for Penguicon to change web software
but I never agreed with his idea of moving to WordPress or a new web host.

Please don't just blindly vote without asking the much needed questions
or reading the answers to the following questions (after they have
been answered).

How is doing this move going to save Penguicon money (if any)? and how much?
How is it going to get us better than five 9's (99.999% uptime) of
service and immediate 24 hour responce
to our issues when they do arise? (we get this now)
Can a new web host give us root access to our own server so we can manage it?
   (this in my mind would be the only reason to move)

How is WordPress going to be any better than Plone?
   What are the issue that people have with Plone (if there really are any)?
   How is WordPress going to solve these issues?
   Why do we need to use WordPress?
       What will it do for us the Plone already doesn't (or can do)?

Why do we need to move web hosts to use WordPress?

-Ron
Penguicon Webmaster

----- Original Message ----
From: Patricia Altergott <paltergo at svsu.edu>
To: Penguicon Board Discussion List <board at penguicon.org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2007 1:58:03 PM
Subject: Re: [Board] Permission to move the website to Ideal Solution hosting

Seconded for online vote.
~Patricia

>>> "john guest" <phecda at gmail.com> 5/15/2007 1:38 pm >>>
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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