Folks, As many of you have noticed, GTALUG's mailings and website were down since Dec 17th. This was the result of the operations/executive failing to act in a timely manner after Chris's passing. A payment was missed, and our server was shutdown by the hosting provider. Over the holidays an attempt was made to recover the account, but we came under the mistaken impression that the server had been deleted. And so we focused our efforts on recovering DNS and establishing a new server from our regular backups. We have great thanks to express to Hugh Redelmeier. A steadfast volunteer and contributor of our community. Uncoordinated with the board, he reached out our provider and offered to pay the bill. Successful by-passing our misunderstandings, hotfixing the situation, and bringing us back on-line. He will be compensated for an out of pocket costs. Speaking personally, these are hard times. I as I've returned to help bridge the gap from Chris's passing, I've found to many functions and knowledge and pool in to few people and was not being effectively taught to new contributors. We failed to get enough visibility into our areas of risk. We failed to effectively communicate with our community via our other social media channels about our situation. I'm personally working with the current board to full on-board our lastest board members. Establish handbooks for the various functions and roles. In the past, the board was just the voting head of a rotating group of some 10-15 individuals that contributed and attended the executive meetings. If you want help spread the load, or be involved in how the group functions. Please see and consider joining the operations mailing list. https://gtalug.org/mailing-list/#operations Meeting Minutes of the Executive meetings can be found here: https://board.gtalug.org/ Executive / Board Meetings have always, and continue to be open to attendance from our community. -- Scott Sullivan Wearing the Hats of, A Director & Secretary --- GTALUG Announce mailing list announce@gtalug.org https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/announce
| From: Scott Sullivan <scott@revident.net> | We have great thanks to express to Hugh Redelmeier. A steadfast volunteer and | contributor of our community. Uncoordinated with the board, he reached out our | provider and offered to pay the bill. Successful by-passing our | misunderstandings, hotfixing the situation, and bringing us back on-line. He | will be compensated for an out of pocket costs. 1. The fix is temporary. Linode has reinstated the server for the rest of the billing cycle (I don't know how long that is; I've asked). They will get back to me about what I/we can do. 2. I offered to pay. I don't know if they actually charged me. If so, I'm happy to contribute that to GTALUG. Thanks for the several offers of financial help. Don't worry about it (unless this becomes permanent). 3. I explicitly did not represent myself as authorized to linode. I have no admin access or anything like it. GTALUG needs admin access to the server or it needs to replace the server. In other words: we still have a problem. This just buys GTALUG a bit of time. | Speaking personally, these are hard times. I as I've returned to help bridge | the gap from Chris's passing, I've found to many functions and knowledge and | pool in to few people and was not being effectively taught to new | contributors. This is a real problem with community groups. It can be addressed but it isn't easy. GTALUG has done amazingly well. | In the past, the board was just the voting head of a rotating group of some | 10-15 individuals that contributed and attended the executive meetings. That seems like a very healthy number, based on my experience with other groups.
I work at UofT in IT and can inquire to see if UofT would be interested in hosting GTALUG infrastructure. Would this be of interest to the community? Any reasons (eg. reservations/requirements/bylaws/rules) against this? Rouben On Thu, Jan 7, 2021 at 14:17 D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
| From: Scott Sullivan <scott@revident.net>
| We have great thanks to express to Hugh Redelmeier. A steadfast volunteer and | contributor of our community. Uncoordinated with the board, he reached out our | provider and offered to pay the bill. Successful by-passing our | misunderstandings, hotfixing the situation, and bringing us back on-line. He | will be compensated for an out of pocket costs.
1. The fix is temporary. Linode has reinstated the server for the rest of the billing cycle (I don't know how long that is; I've asked). They will get back to me about what I/we can do.
2. I offered to pay. I don't know if they actually charged me. If so, I'm happy to contribute that to GTALUG. Thanks for the several offers of financial help. Don't worry about it (unless this becomes permanent).
3. I explicitly did not represent myself as authorized to linode. I have no admin access or anything like it. GTALUG needs admin access to the server or it needs to replace the server. In other words: we still have a problem. This just buys GTALUG a bit of time.
| Speaking personally, these are hard times. I as I've returned to help bridge | the gap from Chris's passing, I've found to many functions and knowledge and | pool in to few people and was not being effectively taught to new | contributors.
This is a real problem with community groups. It can be addressed but it isn't easy. GTALUG has done amazingly well.
| In the past, the board was just the voting head of a rotating group of some | 10-15 individuals that contributed and attended the executive meetings.
That seems like a very healthy number, based on my experience with other groups.
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-- Rouben
Hi, I’m Chair of the Department of Computer Science at Ryerson, and we already provide GTALUG with a meeting room (when there’s no pandemic and it’s safe to meet in person). I see no reason we couldn’t provide a virtual machine to run GTALUG’s visibility. I can’t imagine there is any significant amount of data or bandwidth required. So we would be happy to assist. ../Dave On Jan 7, 2021, 2:29 PM -0500, Rouben via talk <talk@gtalug.org>, wrote:
I work at UofT in IT and can inquire to see if UofT would be interested in hosting GTALUG infrastructure. Would this be of interest to the community? Any reasons (eg. reservations/requirements/bylaws/rules) against this?
Rouben
On Thu, Jan 7, 2021 at 14:17 D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
| From: Scott Sullivan <scott@revident.net>
| We have great thanks to express to Hugh Redelmeier. A steadfast volunteer and | contributor of our community. Uncoordinated with the board, he reached out our | provider and offered to pay the bill. Successful by-passing our | misunderstandings, hotfixing the situation, and bringing us back on-line. He | will be compensated for an out of pocket costs.
1. The fix is temporary. Linode has reinstated the server for the rest of the billing cycle (I don't know how long that is; I've asked). They will get back to me about what I/we can do.
2. I offered to pay. I don't know if they actually charged me. If so, I'm happy to contribute that to GTALUG. Thanks for the several offers of financial help. Don't worry about it (unless this becomes permanent).
3. I explicitly did not represent myself as authorized to linode. I have no admin access or anything like it. GTALUG needs admin access to the server or it needs to replace the server. In other words: we still have a problem. This just buys GTALUG a bit of time.
| Speaking personally, these are hard times. I as I've returned to help bridge | the gap from Chris's passing, I've found to many functions and knowledge and | pool in to few people and was not being effectively taught to new | contributors.
This is a real problem with community groups. It can be addressed but it isn't easy. GTALUG has done amazingly well.
| In the past, the board was just the voting head of a rotating group of some | 10-15 individuals that contributed and attended the executive meetings.
That seems like a very healthy number, based on my experience with other groups.
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