[Imc-web] IMC Web/Tech Meeting: Mon. June 8 @ 8 PM

[Zachary C. Miller]

I'll see everyone at the IMC tonight for the Tech meeting. 

Things I'd like to talk about:

Organization of Tech Collective

	If we talk about nothing else, I want to talk about how we do
	tech at IMC. Should there be a monthly meeting? A weekly
	meeting? An IRC channel that we all monitor? Should we do some
	outreach and if so how? Do we want to be a real working group
	or an ad hoc caucus of working group members? Should we be two
	different working groups (tech and web)? Or a working group
	with a couple of subcommittees?

Email list moderation.

	Bryan Cribbs is doing the lions share of this work right now
	and it's a constant struggle against spam that he didn't sign
	up for. He needs help. It'd be cool if we could get a team of
	folks together to help with spam control in general (writing
	new rules for spamassassin, training the filter (though there
	are significant	issues with this), monitoring the caughtspam for ham,
	etc).

Dada editting.

	What are our policies? What should they be? Who are our
 	edittors? How are editors empowered do be such?

Dada maintenance and administration.
	
	Who is taking care of dada bugs and upgrades, how are they
	empowered to do so?

218 W. Main Tech Support, Maintenance, and Administration

	Remote boot? (it's be cool if our machines remote booted from
		a standard image on a server and if we could take
		"stable" snapshots of that image from time to time to
		revert back to when someone messes up the machine with
		weird software).

	CD boot? (Can we boot at least the public machine from a linux
		CD and seal off the CD drive so it can't be
		stolen...one benefit is that since it's a CD, even
		though it is unix they can still just power cycle
		without messing things up...you can't even promise
		that with windows))?

	Rebuild scripts? (Can we set something up so you can boot from
		a special CD and use that CD to rebuild the machine to
		some 'standard' setup)?

	On call volunteer tech support staff? (ie what if there was a
		list of folks that people could call if they need
		help, we could even put in the schedule of when we
		should and shouldn't be called, maybe take turns being
		the "on call" person)

Software Projects and Outreach 
	
	Can we do some outreach to software groups like the ACM SIGs
	at UIUC or other such clubs and coordinate some open source projects
	that will benefit the IMC as a whole? With some dedicated volunteers
	and a little work we could probably juice up one of the open source
	audio editting packages and build a CD distribution for an audio
	editting workstation that would be useful to IMCs all over the world.

	We need motivated people with some free time to come to our
	meetings if we're going to do this though. I think we'll have
	a better time doing outreach if our group is working on this kind of
	interesting stuff though.

Grantwriting

	Months ago, Clint and I started the process of creating a
	master list for the grantwriters of all the equipment we'd
	have in a perfect world. The more information we can provide
	and keep up to date, the easier it'll be for grantwriters to
	include equipment budgets in grants that they write.

Global Tech
	
	It'd be nice if we had some involvement, even just lurkingly,
	with the global imc tech collective (its email list, its IRC
	channel, its online meetings, etc).

Paul Riismandel wrote:
> As agreed at the May Steering meeting, we'll be having a Website / Tech 
> meeting on Monday, June 8 @ 8 PM at the IMC.
> 
> The purpose of this meeting is to work on both the various tech needs 
> and problems at the IMC and to focus on the growing editing needs of 
> the U-C IMC website.
> 
> Who should attend? Anyone with tech needs, concerns or problems. Anyone 
> with tech or web abilities wanting to help out. Anyone wanting to work 
> on the website.
> 
> One of the top agenda items is to revise the IMC's Website Acceptable 
> Use Policy, in order to make it more accurately reflect and deal with 
> current usage and practice. Especially, the amount of spam, trolling 
> and plain insults posted to the site continues to grow, and is a much 
> bigger problem since this policy was first written. There is a real 
> need to revise the policy to address this new reality.
> 
> The current Website Acceptable Use Policy is here:
> http://www.ucimc.org/mod/info/display/policy/index.php
> 
> Future IMC Web/Tech Meetings will be held on the first Monday of the 
> month at 8 PM.
> 
> Please note that at the moment this is an ad hoc group, not an official 
> working group. Any revised policies must be passed by Steering.
> 
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