Hosting Migration (3 month duration)

1. Write brief statement of work
2. Identify / Introduce key people
   1. AU Sponsor: Brian Stewart
   2. AU Tech: Rory McGreal, Curtis Collicutt & Daryl Campbell
   3. WE Sponsor: Wayne
   4. WE Tech: Erik, Jim & WenChen
   5. Project Mgr: Peter
3. Define / Clarify roles and responsibilities
4. Create detailed project plan
5. Identify critical events / path
6. Define hosting configuration & hardware spec
   1. Virtualization Question
   2. be aware we want to upgrade MySQL, PhP, other?
7. Procure hardware
8. Set-up hardware
9. Load and configure software
10. confirm IP addresses
11. Test configuration (basic wiki)
12. Alpha migrate wiki (database, images, etc)
13. Discuss and create test scripts
    1. be aware we upgraded MySQL, PhP, other?
14. Discuss WE community communication
15. Beta migrate wiki (database, images, etc)
16. Test, test, test
17. Communicate migration to WE community
18. Downtime page on production wiki (Germany)
19. Migrate wiki, database, etc.
20. Test new location
21. Go, No Go Decision
22. Initiate DNS changes
23. Put redirect page on old production server (Germany)
24. Be patient, be on call...
25. Celebrate!