Re: Need Volunteers for Website Working Committee

> Our old host has proven resistant to doing an in-place OS upgrade, so 
> we have determined the way forward is to provision a fresh host 
> (funding for that is another open matter, for a Fundraising committee – 
> volunteers welcome for that as well). 

I kind of hoped that the CL foundation has a bit of money left,
enough to get another (virtual) machine (eg. Hetzner) to run in parallel
for 1-2 months at most until the old one can be scratched?


> This (standing up the new host) should be a fun project with a lot of 
> learning and networking opportunities.  Please write to me directly if 
> interested. 

Yeah, I'm still willing to help, even if I'm a bit more time-starved 
than a year ago.


In the meantime I've come to believe that it won't be easy to get a
full weekend from all volunteers at the same time -- and even if we did,
we'd just stomp on each others toes.

Can we define some common documentation area (perhaps using cryptpad.fr
or a similar independent service) where we can create a list of tasks,
edit/complete/document/check there in parallel, and start the migration
of services to the new VM in the background?


I'm well aware that we need a bit of coordination for the final sync 
run[1],
but quite a lot of configuration can be done independently.


[1] I hope that we can define stuff like /home/ as read-only
on the old machine after a first rsync run -- but for gitlab we'll need
some coordinated down-time, I guess.