[governance] Advance notice of the need to move this list

[Roland Perry]

In message <1294714245.3176.586.camel at terminus-Aspire-L320>, at 10:50:45 
on Tue, 11 Jan 2011, Jeremy Malcolm <jeremy at ciroap.org> writes
>This is to seek feedback on options for moving the IGC governance
>mailing list, because the CPSR which has hosted our list is no longer
>operating and cannot maintain its free service to us indefinitely.
>There is no immediate urgency, because we have about two years before we
>have to vacate the cpsr.org mailing list server, but it is best to plan
>now.
>
>I can see three options.
>
>1. Asking another like-minded organisation to host it.  I have checked
>with the APC who host our Web site, and they say that their mailing list
>server runs different software (Mailman), so it would be difficult and
>time-consuming to try to shift our archives over to their server.
>
>2. Move our mailing list to the igf-online.net server that hosts the IGF
>Community Site, which is where I have created the subsidiary mailing
>lists for our IGC working groups.  It runs the same software that we use
>now, so migrating the list with archives intact would be fairly easy.
>
>3. The other option is that we raise some money and hire our own
>dedicated virtual server.  We could, in that case, move our Web site and
>database over there too.
>
>I would recommend option 2.  The igf-online.net server was originally
>established for the Rio IGF meeting in 2007 as the successor to the
>earlier IGF Community Site at igf2006.info that I co-developed.  It is
>currently hosted by my employer Consumers International.

In order to avoid going through this whole thing again in another couple 
of years, can CI give a commitment that future co-ordinators (after your 
term has ended) will be given the necessary admin privileges to the 
site, and they'll continue to support the hosting platform? It's 
difficult being generous, and we don't want to appear ungrateful, but 
there's also a need for that continuity and stability.

It might also be a good time to rename the website and list to give a 
co-ordinated url. The caucus discusses more than the IGF.
-- 
Roland Perry
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