Technology Committee Meeting - March 26th, 2022

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Meeting Info

Online via Google Meet. Saturday, March 26 · 1:30 – 2:30pm

Attendance: Drew K, Chris D, John C, Dave V, Ryan H, Jack Margeson

The Yelp page for Hive13 is unclaimed and had the old location; it's being updated to the new location now (looks like Drew is doing this?)

We are closer to doing this, but have a couple pending items:
- Get categories set up; note that Wardens list probably needs a separate category (alongside Leadership) as it's private
- Get backups/snapshots set up
  - Full VM snapshots: Azure lets one do this for $5/mo plus storage costs
  - Archive-tier storage on Azure can work via SMB3 endpoints and is $0.02/GB (Drew is looking into this)
  - Need a script on the VM to do dump of database + config, and maybe to handle expiration of older ones
There are some items we could use for Jack's volunteer hours:
- Trying to follow documentation on doing restore/setup from backups
- Fielding questions from members when we do the switch
- Possibly: writing some docs (he has existing experience with this)

For Hodapp to do:
- Look at Discourse backup scripts for Azure
- Migrate URL to discourse.hive13.org
- Have some specific documentation tasks for Jack

Drew is going to set up a Tendenci instance (and says he'll make a Wiki page for this)
Jack has Python experience and can probably help
Tendenci is apparently just a pip package, so that's awesome
- Also, it uses Postgresql and we already have a VM for this