Difference between revisions of "2017 Winter Project Week/UpdatingCommunityForums"

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Objective	Approach and Plan	Progress and Next Steps
Discuss the procedure for reaching consensus and making decision for the infrastructure issues that will have effect on large number of users Consider mailing list proposal to move Slicer and possibly several related discussion forums to the Discourse platform. Discuss new community-interaction possibilities such as Gitter. Consider the long-discussed proposals to move to github hosting for the web site	Breakfast breakout discussion - Tuesday 8:30am - Ron is confirmed to join! Document the procedure for reaching consensus and making decision for the infrastructure issues that will have effect on large number of users Discourse Assess Discourse with broader community. Identify funding mechanism. Logistics to move if chosen: Hosting: fully-managed service? vs DigitalOcean or other provider? Domain name: 'discourse.slicer.org'? SSL certificate for domain: can use Letsencrypt after host and DNS record are configured SMTP service: included in hosted option. For self-hosting: strongly recommended, and mandatory for email-only signup and mailing list mode; not mandatory if using only oauth provider (GitHub/Google/etc.) GitHub Identify remaining action items to complete the long-awaited move of Slicer source hosting to GitHub. Web-site Organize web-site content on github Consider moving hosting to github

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+* Breakfast breakout discussion - Tuesday 8:30am - Ron is confirmed to join!
 * Document the procedure for reaching consensus and making decision for the infrastructure issues that will have effect on large number of users
 * Discourse