Wednesday 20090520

Present: Tania, Dreamer, Foo, Doris, SunTzu

Art Stuff

Tania + simon sent a great email to the great great world. The great email was seen. Announcing three things:

  • Doris panel on art critters.
  • 30th may G7 CC
  • Some art thing.

BYI organisation thing 30th May

  • at G7 30th May
  • Tania + Foo doing the bar, 2 euros per drink
  • for organisers and musicians, 3 free drinks.
  • call Pablo for filming. … setup for sound.
  • we need the microphones, 2 batteries
  • doris: check cables, buy batteries
  • Tania has a microphone stand at her house. has to get to G7.
  • beamer flipchart chairs
  • upstairs … room cleaned … beamer chairs out
  • Matthias + Tannnyay will be here 18:00 to prepare, others welcome to help
  • we are between 20:00 and 21:00 for BYI
  • after us is party
  • Does Tanyia be moderator: not comfortable with topic of BYI …
  • Does iang want to do it???
  • Simon is organising artists?!?
  • part of CC / g7’s listening event … mumosomeone
  • future of BYI, perhaps in talk about in June, after presentation of bellobenishower

Depot

  • documentation, do we want it, do we ask Pablo
  • Yes, ask Pablo
  • it would be come a BYI clip?
  • panel discussion
  • how many minutes? unknown …
  • no help needed
  • we turning up. tuesday 26th May 19:00.
  • email sent out … to other lists?

tech stuff

Zentrix

  • defining a workflow for migration …
  • write a mail about shutdown of Zentrix
  • shutdown zentrix as fast as possible…
  • how to handle the email service
  • we shut down the vhosts
  • do we shutdown the email of these persons who are using the services for free.
  • do we do any email for free?
  • anything that is over-quota can be shut down
  • around 500 accounts
  • sonance.net should really be for involved people, have paid up, have an organisational function, or work for their accounts, etc.
  • we have to send a mail out…
  • not clear … can a member give away 100s of accounts…
  • other possibility is that people cannot give away email accounts until the interface is sorted out.
  • paid up members can have their email addresses and other services.
  • anyone else who is not paid up and has nothing to do with the system … should be deleted.
  • sympa is running on zentrix still. there are mailing lists for other people who are not paid up …
  • we have to clear out the old accounts.
  • must be on contact with the people … coz the passwords will have to be changed
  • no phone support available … need to send the email out
  • eg, africa list
  • blogs: same thing.
  • an account with sonance.net is a full service account
  • mailing lists: if no owner, and not a member, should be shutdown.
  • can the public archives be preserved for research? yes
  • blogs: not depending on zentrix
  • the point is to clean up LDAP … so everything which is gone will help a lot.
  • leave the blogs. not a free service … but at some stage we will get around to cleaning them up.
  • mySQL … data has been moved for lists, etc
  • postgresql was used for sympa and webmail, not used any more
  • archive. the vhost archive.
  • many pages concerning the sonance history not transferred as yet
  • enter.sonance is transferred, typo3, etc is transferred
  • simon + matthias will make a list of activesonance sites to move …
  • then one archive categoy called sonance history with static sites …
  • another archive with vhosts of users …
  • that have agreed to go to the sonance archive.
  • give the user an opt-out option, rather than ask them and wait
  • oli + simon + matthias will sit together and make this together
  • when do we write the email?

additional

  • how is the phone call / support going to be handled
  • no resources available to handle the phone. not at this moment handle the phones.
  • get a phone … for mailbox only
  • find a pre-paid phone, and use it as a mailbox only… Matthias can sort it out.
  • is now up and going
  • all membership issues should go through here

Misc

  • Funkfeuer — delivered another bill!

redesign of the Sonance image

  • change of name?