SKSI/MeetingNotes/2021-11-24 Meeting

Present: Roland, William, Varunesh, Wayne, Dave

Notes: Catch ups. Roland has one week of quarantine in Apia left, then he's out. Varun is still in Auckland, awaiting a flight to Samoa (where he then has to quarantine for 3 weeks!) next week due to a cancellation (by AirNZ) of his planned flight this week.

Wayne initiated recording. Discussed launch of training session/flyers.

Dave instructed the participants that we'll move to our new BBB instance, talk.oeru.org, from speak.oeru.org for future sessions.

Dave shared the Inkscape Flyer. (Dave gave a quick advert for Inkscape, which is great FOSS for creating vector drawings/laying out flyers, etc.)

Dave to set up a collaborative document in OnlyOffice to create the email to invite prospective tutorial participants.

Dave demonstrated the bbbtest.milll.ws (this is a temporary test site, and won't be available for long) test instance and showed the tutorial notes he's made. And he explained how he'd create a full tutorial on the OERu Tech Blog to provide a reference for tutorial participants after the actual session.

Then we discussed the use of the MiLLL Forum as a place for follow ups for tutorial participants. We also agreed that MESC would be happy if the result of the tutorial implementation of BBB is permanently available on bbb.milll.ws to provide that as a test platform for evaluating suitability for other instances for Samoan organisations, and to determine the usable load capacity (i.e. number of simultaneous user)...

Roland asked about using an online registration process for tutorial participants, suggesting our LimeSurvey. Wayne suggested it might be worth the extra work of using Mautic to showcase it's abilities... Roland also asked about the use of the "Greenlight" front end for BBB, which allows multiple people to be able to create and maintain 'rooms' on the BBB instance, and run concurrent meetings with different groups (limited in total participant numbers only by the capacity of the hosting server). Dave assured him that Greenlight is a part of the default BBB implementation, so it would be included.

We can have a second formal tutorial to discuss implementing MailCow, which Dave recalled was of interest to MESC and other agencies in Samoa to offer a break from the use of Google Mail services (which are currently used for all government departments and schools/students in Samoa).

Also, following the BBB Tutorial, we'll set up a follow-up tutorial to "shore up" the BBB instance, e.g. configuring extra disk volumes to use for holding BBB recordings, doing hourly Greenlight database backups, and daily encrypted incremental off-site data (e.g. BBB recordings) backups. The latter backups could be directed to the new infrastructure onshore in Samoa, to ensure that, as a disaster recovery measure (and for privacy/data sovereignty considerations) a copy of the data resides within the Samoan legal jurisdiction.

We also discussed the possibility Nehru mentioned last week that additional folks at SQA's IT team and the Samoa IT Team who might want to take part - William will follow that up with Nehru.

Wayne mentioned the prospect of tutorial participants getting an OERu participation badge (for those who've taken part in the whole tutorial)

Meeting recording