Re: [lp-ca-on] Starting phase #1

[Sergio Durigan Junior]

On Thursday, September 25 2014, Blaise Alleyne wrote:

> On 24/09/14 01:09 PM, Sergio Durigan Junior wrote:
>> On Wednesday, September 24 2014, Blaise Alleyne wrote:
>> 
>>> On 23/09/14 10:15 PM, Sergio Durigan Junior wrote:
>>> [...] Re: location, I'd suggest a bar in the Yonge/Eglinton area maybe over 
>>> coffee
>>> shop (since we had the coffee shop close on us this week).
>> 
>> I'll let this one for you guys to choose; I'm new in the area and don't
>> know many places.
>> 
>
> Hmm, there's the Duke of Kent (Roehampton and Yonge), or a Fox and Firkin at 
> 51
> Eglinton Ave E that could work. The Duke of Kent would be closer to Rudolf, 
> Fox
> and Firkin would be closer to Red Hat and the direction I'd be coming in.

I went to Fox and Firkin a few days ago, they have a nice space there.
And I've heard good things about Duke of Kent :-).  So yeah, any of them
is nice to me!

> We could try one in October, one in November, and see which one we like 
> better?
> I'd suggest we try the Fox and Firkin first (I've only been there maybe once
> before if at all!).

Perfect for me!

> Hover is a division of Tucows. Tucows is a Toronto-based company. I use Hover
> mainline for their customer service (valet domain transfers, human beings
> available via phone during business hours, etc.), but Tucows participated in 
> the
> SOPA/PIPA blackout too:
>
> http://www.tucows.com/article/2470
>
> I do think Gandi does *more* to support free software though, e.g.
> https://www.gandi.net/supports/
>
> But Tucows is on the right side of these issues and I'm not sure that they do
> anything obectionable.
>
> Thoughts?

Hm, I'd prefer Gandi (exactly because of their support for FLOSS), but
I've just seen that only Canadian citizens can register .ca domains.  I
am not a citizen yet, so I guess you will have to do it :-/.

About Hover, since they participated in the SOPA/PIPA blackout, I guess
they're good :-).

>> Heh...  Free Software activism demands some "sacrifices", so I basically
>> paid for everything (except for the VPS; for that, we collectively
>> paid).
>> 
>
> Right.
>
> Well, I wouldn't have a ton of money to pitch in, but I would want to 
> contribute
> -- I don't expect we'd be looking to spend that much overall anyways to get 
> started.

Yeah, I will certainly contribute as well, so the final price may not be
very expensive after we divide it by 2 or 3 (or more?).

> I'm in agreement on everything else.
>
> I guess next steps re: website would be...
>
> - confirm the domain name registrar and get both libreplaneton.ca and 
> libreplanet.ca
> - set up the web host and SFTP access
> - put together the single HTML page with some basic info to start

Yeah, sounds nice to me.

> Then, next step re: Toronto team meeting:
> - compile the list of ally groups in the city along with their meeting times
> - set a date/time that works for the three of us in Toronto and doesn't 
> conflict
> with ally groups

Great.  I just talked to a friend of mine from RH who is very interested
in going to our next meeting.  He will subscribe to the mailing list so
that he can also say when it would be good for him to meet :-).

Cheers,

-- 
Sergio
GPG key ID: 0x65FC5E36
Please send encrypted e-mail if possible
http://sergiodj.net/