OERu/Planning/Technology working group/2015-09-28

Date 28 September 2015, 13.30 NZDT Where appear.in/OERu

Agenda

 * 1) Feedback: North American Regional meeting
 * 2) OERu 2015.10 meeting
 * 3) * WordPress site (Local time, IDevice background, moving to meetings.oeru.org to our multisite install, other?)
 * 4) * Etherpad Lite for remote breakouts
 * 5) WP Configuration for multisite - negotiate with Jim - work out where OERu WP theme lives, and where it should be retrieved from for each instance.
 * 6) * sites are using the master branch of the oeru_course theme
 * 7) BBB Test - job for AWS elastic compute instance?
 * 8) Mattermost trial? https://mattermost.nzoss.org.nz as soon as I get the domain configured and an SSL cert
 * 9) *alternatives include:
 * 10) **Rocket.Chat
 * 11) **Zulip
 * 12) ** Gitter.im (including the oeru repository room)
 * 13) Wiki theme for CCANZ subset of content
 * 14) Let's Encrypt nearly ready (beta available now, if we opt-in - link (to a Google form, direct link blocked by MediaWiki spam filter :)) is here: https://letsencrypt.org/2015/09/14/our-first-cert.html )

Notes and decisions

 * 1) Don't move meetings.oeru.org to multi-site install
 * 2) Will set up Etherpad install for OERu 2015.10 meeting in SA - preferably by Friday am to prep-populate pads for virtual breakout sessions. Will use HTTP authentication (a pop-up login form) with a single set of credentials for all participants.
 * 3) Proceed with small test of BBB (initially for internal testing. I suggest we expand the test to a few "trusted" users to give feedback after international testing.)
 * 4) Keen to explore mattermost (or alternate) as possible replacement for WEnotes.
 * 5) Will advise CCANZ that we are happy to host a MW install if required.