On 27/11/2022 21.01, Evan Leibovitch via talk wrote:
Along with other AGM business, we will be discussing how GTALUG goes
forward with our online services.
I'm glad we're going to have this discussion. Chris Browne's untimely
passing two years ago showed how heavily GTALUG relied on the work of a
very few volunteers. And we do have a lot of online services, including:
* the website;
* the mailing lists and their various archives. Maintaining and
moderating a mailing list is no trivial thing;
* GTALUG Wiki — https://wiki.gtalug.org/start — which I don't think
anyone's touched for over two years.
It might be worth re-evaluating what resources we need. Could we make do
with a hosted WordPress instance and move the lists to groups.io?
As Google has provided to GTALUG its nonprofit services which include
full access to commercial Google Workplace (formerly G Suite), the
Board has been investigating migrating some of our online services there.
Is GTALUG Inc a qualifying non-profit? What happens when Google decides
to stop providing this free service? Where does our data go? “If you are
not paying for it, you're not the customer; you're the product being sold.”*
cheers,
Stewart
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