A thread to discuss naming threads, board policy, new thread suggestions, and anything else that has to do with board administration and maintenance. Guaranteed to include lively debate and polls. Natter discouraged, but not deleted.
Current Stompy Feet: Jon B, P.M. Marcontell, Liese S., amych, msbelle, shrift, Dana, Laura
Stompy Emerita: ita, DXMachina
From the ita thread:
ita: If we do decide to go the domaindiscover route, Jesse, it's simple to set me up as technical contact... but then we have to supply an organizational, an administrative and a billing contact. Billing is easy -- what about the other two?
I just checked whois for b.org, and Jesse, you're listed as sole contact for everything. Should someone else be the technical contact?
Sure! I definitely don't need to be the sole anything.
Okay then, now to find a volunteer, someone with keys.
I'm technically a QA engineer (whatever that means), but I do have SQL programming experience and at least know how NOT to mess up a database while exploring it. I'm not sure I have the tools on my home computer to do any of that, though.
I will be over here ostriching in the sand because I CANNOT deal. I love you all, but I am not ready to have to be practical.
And that's fine. Take as much time as you need.
I am all about the practical but am useless at the technical bits (and so very glad y'all seem to have it covered). But let me know when you need someone to speak sternly, wave money around, or flirt with anyone...
There is precious little money, but what there is, I will wave in b.org's direction--just say the word.
What Beverly said. I have no expertise, but I can throw (a little) money at problems. I am hugely grateful for all of you who are able and willing to do what needs done to keep this unique and wonderful place ita made going.
Also, does anyone else read SQL as "squirrel!"?
I'm happy to do what I can, obvs, since I quietly butted in without asking anyone's leave but Jesse. We'd just gotten a few memory overages, and I didn't want us to go down while we had extra traffic, so we've, at least temporarily, bumped our allowances, which costs more, but it's still way cheaper than what we were paying.
I didn't want to worry everyone in the moment, and I'm glad we are talking about it. So yes, at the moment, I have keys, and can give out appropriate access, I believe. However, we should probably set up a few protocols, since basically up till now it was basically in ita and scola's hands. If we're going to have more people in the mix, which is good, we should do it properly.
My skill set is decades out of date, but I'd been wanting to get back up to speed anyway.
I am happy to step back, it just worried me to have only her name on there.
And then I had a big meltdown because I didn't want to need to work on the backend, because ita should be there to cover it. Err, so to speak.
But it's ok. We're community, and we can do this together and uphold her legacy.