[FOSS_health] Testing after server relocation - stage 2 upgrade

[Chris Richardson]

Molly;

   Your plan seems reasonable.  Much of the discussion you suggest at the 
end of the message may have only limited appeal to the general membership. 
You might consider forming a technical working group of those in the 
community who are more deeply entrenched in the Plone/PHP technology to sort 
out the migration plans and let folks vote with their fingers by having open 
enrollment in the technical group for a limited period of time.  After the 
membership has formed, then let the interested select their leader who will 
be responsible to the OSHCA leadership.  This working group would lay out 
the tasks to be done with a schedule of planned deliverables and a budget. 
Now considering that many of the OSHCA Leadership is technical, there is 
likely to be overlap, but once formed, the working group should be 
respected, but accountable through their appointed leader.  This gets a 
focused group working on the infrastructure while the rest of the community 
can get on with whatever other projects are in play.  This does not mean 
that suggestions cannot come from outside the group, just that the leader of 
the working group has the responsibility of controling feature creep and can 
keep the project until his control until there is compelling reason to 
reconfigure the milestones to include any requested modification.  The 
working group can elect to add additional workers as they see fit and as 
such talent makes itself available.  But it is the Working Group Leader who 
decides the size of the group and what the task list focus is.  He is 
accountable to the OSHCA leadership for meeting the published milestones and 
timetable.  This focuses the politics, but lets the technical folks to get 
on with the tasks at hand.

  I hope that this is of some small help.  Best wishes;   Chris Richardson


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Molly Cheah" <drcheah at pc.jaring.my>
To: <foss_health at oshca.org>; "OSHCA Members List" <oshca_members at oshca.org>
Sent: Friday, August 10, 2007 3:16 AM
Subject: Re: [FOSS_health] Testing after server relocation - stage 2 upgrade


> Hi Chris,
> I did whatever I knew to get rid of the broken link and invalid email 
> address. We'll probably need to plan for the stage 2 upgrade of the oshca 
> dot org. While the mailing list was down, I had received several offers to 
> help. As I had said before, OSHCA needs a practical electronic environment 
> and system to enable it to manage its membership and activities with 
> minimal interventions and at the same time provide its members and the 
> FOSS community at large the ability to use this platform and mechanism to 
> participate and collaborate in its activities responsibly.
>
> While the mailing list was not available during the move, I had the 
> opportunity to discuss with some volunteers on how to approach Stage 2, 
> starting with the question on the appropriate use of technology to enhance 
> the web-portal i.e should we continue to use plone and zope or move to 
> some other PHP based CMS such as Drupal. I know we had gone through that 
> before, but I was told that PHP based CMSes have caught up with Plone in 
> terms of features and they are far easier to manage than plone sites. 
> Clearly needs assessment of OSHCA as an organisation with its specific 
> Vision/Missions and user requirements of members and the FOSS community at 
> large may be good starting points of Stage 2 upgrade. There is a need for 
> a volunteer to lead a team of volunteers to do this.
>
> Should we have these discussions only on one list: FOSS_health list (there 
> are non-members there) or OSHCA_members list (on membership matters, OSHCA 
> Constitution and OSHCA AGM/EGM matters)?
>
> Rgds,
> Molly
>
> Chris Seebregts wrote:
>
>>Hi Molly et al
>>
>>Access to oshca.org is much faster than before from South Africa.  I
>>noticed a few broken links, eg the topic view at
>>http://www.oshca.org/conference/OSHCA2007/Conference2007.  Also, it
>>doesn't seem to be possible yet to register on the site and enquiries
>>are directed to an invalid e-mail address (postmaster at localhost) at
>>http://www.oshca.org/mail_password_form.
>>Regards
>>
>>Chris Seebregts
>>
>>
>
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