FITS Excom Conference Call 4/14/2016 10:00am-

Attendees:

Julie DeFilippi

Nick Sievert

Jodi Whittier

Andy Loftus

Thom Litts

Jeff Kopaska

Discussion:

• Drupal Gardens Going out of Business-Julie
  • Website can be migrated to another webhosting platform (Bluehost is an alternative we can migrate to).
  • Do we want to migrate to bluehost or move in another direction
  • Thom Comments
    • Need to move by August 1^st
    • Move to AFS or migrate to bluehost
      • Doesn’t have a strong opinion
    • AFS wordpress is a viable option, still can migrate from there if needed in future
  • Julie
    • How difficult would it be to migrate from drupal to wordpress?
  • Thom
    • Site will have to be rebuilt
    • Shouldn’t be too difficult if someone knows wordpress tackles the challenge
    • Should discuss with Rebecca since she knows wordpress well
    • One advantage of moving to wordpress would be that AFS staff would have access so they would be able to assist us with managing it.
  • Julie: Asked if anyone else had thoughts, no one else had comments, she will talk with Rebecca
  • Thom and Andy
    • Because of short deadline it’s likely that our best option is to migrate to another platform for the short term and look into migrating to AFS in the future
  • Julie: Lets go ahead and migrate to bluehost temporarily to give us time to migrate to AFS hosting (if that’s what we decide to do).
  • Thom: CMS to CMS-> Allows for migration of Drupal to wordpress in minutes seamlessly
    • Free Demo
  • Julie: We can try Thom’s CMS to CMS if there is a volunteer and if it works we can try going to AFS and if not we can switch to bluehost.
  • Thom will look at trying to migrate to wordpress using the CMS to CMS that he found. Will touch base with Rebecca.
    • We will also have to repoint our DNS to wherever our new site is
    • Thom will first migrate into bluehost and then try to get switched over to wordpress
  • Section Meeting
    • Monday afternoon has been a historically good time to hold the meeting to get good attendance. – Julie
      • No meetings during plenaries-Thom
    • Julie: Tentatively schedule business meeting from 3-5pm on Monday
    • Julie: 20 minutes setup time, anticipated group size (20’s typically) 20-30 will be what we go with on our form, seating arrangement options (Square, theater, wedding reception)
      • Jodi, Julie, and Jeff prefer the hollow square
      • Julie will check the box that she’s interested in food and will hear back from the Sheraton with the options.
    • Investment Discussion (Julie)
      • Julie hasn’t had a chance to discuss the options further with Dan.
        • Discuss further next call
      • Papers submitted
        • Thanks everyone for working on the climate change paper and next generation papers
          • Particularly to Jodi and Jeff for leading the charge
        • Officer reports
          • Need to get those together so we can get them sent out there
          • Need to start thinking about elections for next year
            • Better to ask early before people get more commitments
          • Andy:
            • Distribute minutes to membership for approval at the meeting, Andy will get them to Nick so they can be distributed and voted on at the meeting.
          • Try to get reports done ahead of time so they can be circulated ahead of time-Andy
          • Nick and Julie will get together with Andy to get the reports together
          • Thoughts on election:
            • Andy- Generally better to try and lock people in early, many are in multiple sections and if another section gets them first they might not be able to run with us.
          • Rebecca (as president elect) will be in charge of getting the candidates set up, here is a short list of folks we were able to come up with on the call.
            • Jeff K- May have someone who is interested in running for president Rebekka Lindskoog
            • Jodi- Perhaps Nicole Eiden would be interested?
            • Julie- Jeff O may be a good candidate
          • Next call will be the 14^th of July