Tech Ops Meeting
Dec 28, 2011
Whole Foods, Greenwich

AGENDA

items taken from https://www.nycga.net/groups/tech/forum/topic/agenda-for-12-28-11-tech-ops-meeting/
1. Report Backs

• occupywallstreet.net
  • Content team doubled in size
  • Content team is mapping out current info flow
  • Having weekly meetings

• Hardware
  • First round of purchases arrived at the office – 4 laptops, 6 monitors
  • No movement on laptops and internet access for 60 Wall
  • TeraDek offers us free hardware hardware

• Voice Services
  • Service is running out on Friday

• FGA
  • Article in Wired
  • Development environment is almost stable

• Server Migration
  • NYCGA.net is migrated to Panix
  • DNS names are being moved to Gandi

• Occupy.net
  • New frontpage is pretty
  • Roadmap is almost complete

• Freedom Tower
  • New tower was made – Debian server
  • Might live at the office til Isaac is back

• tech.nycga.net
  • New posts have been added, trying to humanize tech

2. Campus Party Speaker selection http://wiki.occupy.net/wiki/Brasil_-_Campus_Party_Speaker

3. Policies
  elaborate deadline and process for implementation, discuss values:

• Terms of Use Policy (website), including Website Personhood Policy
• Privacy Policy (website and phone system)
• Admin Policy
• formulate implementation plan

• Groups policy implementation

4. Hardware Budget

• general discussion of funding models
• voice services
• hardware purchase

5. Listservs – Open source vs. not
6. LastEnding.com Demo
7. New Business

MINUTES

1. Report Backs

• Hardware
  • Teradeck is giving Techops and Media maybe a dozen free bonding units (5K value per unit) and is being excessively cooperative.
  • In total mintues, OWS has domintated totals. Larger than the Olympics.
  • Talking about using Livestream’s data centers as part of our infrastructure.
  • Matt had previous working relationship with Angel.com and knew their API, which allowed us to quickstart voice functionality. This includes automated event reports, twitter feeds and more at NYCGA-411 via text-to-speach. It is a short-term solution until we go open source.
• FGA
  • Searchable directory of occupations is nearly done and will be up sometimes next week
  • Users can manage own listing
  • Half way done with dev environment
  • Need UX people, have lots of engineers and Drupal talent on board

Is this meeting happening right now?

2. Campus Party

• Andrew, Charles, Devin, Liza, Matt  presented
• Blind voting – Outcome
• OUTCOME: Charles received most votes

3. Policies

• Should reach out to other working groups vested in the
• We should extract pieces from existing policies
• Ben Yee used to work for NY State Senate
• Site’s terms of use could be Creative Commons.
• Approach to Developing
  • List of policies we like
  • http://www.penny-arcade.com/ (where are these policies/terms?)
  • List of issues to address
  • Groups to involve in policy
    • Liza: Cross-group communication is an issue
    • Legal
    • Town Planning
• OUTCOME: Charles will spearhead for Wednesday meeting
  • Will use Docs on nycga.net

4. Hardware Budget Proposal

• We don’t really have a budget
• Rackspace SLA will be ending soon
• Panix will be donating until end of March
• From a service perspective, we’re pretty well covered
• There is a spreadsheet of all our expenses (where?)
• Separate out 1) Voice (855-NYCGA-411), 2) Servers and 3) Monthly
• Voice will be cut off on Friday

• Upfront (Capital)
  • $1,500 or $2,500 (50K minutes) – Voice (depending on # of minutes)
  • $2,500 – Hardware (2 servers)

• Monthly (Operational)
  • $250 – Hosting
  • 4 X $150 – Data
  • Total: $1000

• OUTCOME: Liza to will draft proposal and post by Saturday
  • Present to GA Tuesday
  • Posted by Monday

ITEMS NOT ADDRESSED

5. Listservs – Open source vs. not

6. LastEnding.com Demo

7. New Business