As the main communication channel Discourse should be hosted externally to Pumping Station: One to prioritize up-time. A quick review shows that hosting costs are on the order of $200 for the year. There is a possibility of having it set up for $99 for us but it's been done in the past and may be done again. The CTO would be responsible for including future maintenance costs in the their annual budget.
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As we already have an instance of Discourse running, and hosting costs are already included in the CTO's budget, there are no new costs to the organization that this change will introduce.
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* We authorize the board to use Discourse as the main member forum sanctioned by Pumping Station: One, NFP.
* We authorize the board to use Discourse as the main member forum sanctioned by Pumping Station: One, NFP.
* We authorize the board to lock out the Public and Private Google Groups from additional posts after as long as it remains available to the membership for review and historical information.
* We authorize the board to lock out the Public and Private Google Groups from additional posts after as long as it remains available to the membership for review and historical information.
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* We authorize the board to spend up to $350 to install and maintain a cloud version of Discourse for FY 2017/18.