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*** Domain name: 'discourse.slicer.org'?
 
*** Domain name: 'discourse.slicer.org'?
 
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* GitHub
 
** Identify remaining action items to complete the long-awaited move of Slicer source hosting to GitHub.
 
** Identify remaining action items to complete the long-awaited move of Slicer source hosting to GitHub.

Revision as of 17:04, 9 January 2017

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Key Investigators

  • Andrey Fedorov
  • Andras Lasso
  • Mike Halle
  • Steve Pieper
  • Isaiah Norton
  • The COMMUNITY

Project Description

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
  • 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: DigitalOcean? Others?
      • 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

Background and References

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