IT

The Most Stable, Least Changed, a.k.a. Master Information about GPCA IT:

• For the current (and any past and future draft) project plans for any of the work categories below, see http://files.cagreens.org/itwg-plans (the master site for such plans, project names, project milestones, project tasks and worker time logs-per-task).
• For the current GPCA IT Committee Members, see http://www.cagreens.org/committees/it
• For the current GPCA IT Work Process Protocols see http://www.cagreens.org/it-protocol
• For the current GPCA IT Work Co-Cos and Technical Work Volunteers see http://www.cagreens.org/it-people-active. Some of these names will appear in the lists below and on sub-pages of this IT Wiki category page tree. Their names on this site should be links to their resumé summaries also hosted on www.cagreens.org.

Content Management, Strategy and Tactics: (documents as works in progress)

• IT/Content Mgmt: Overview of GPCA Online Content: past, present, and 1+ desired future scenarios.
  • IT/Content Mgmt/GPCA Online Content Management: Overview of Content Management Issues and Content Target Groups (e.g. for overall GPCA party content, GPCA site(s) content, content per committee and working group, content per server...) Jennifer Woodward
  • IT/Content Mgmt/GPCA Online Content: (content for the state-wide party, content per county party, content per state or county or local campaign) Sanda Everette, Mike Feinstein, Tim Laidman, Jennifer Woodward

Technical Design and Development, Requirements and Specifications (documents as works in progress; see also any project plans for a sub-set of the same summary information here that is limited to that project and elaborated just for that project.)

• IT/Design and Development Documentation: (D&D) (documents as works in progress).
  • IT/D&D/Sample Web App Requirements: a Template to be cloned and reformatted per project. Joel Sarch, Jennifer Woodward
  • IT/D&D/CiviCRM Site Development: Master DB, Contact History, and Relationships History of all known GPCA Activists, Members, Voters (a compilation of all GPCA activists, members, supporters, voters parts of which can be interchanged [exported-imported] with user data on the official NationBuilder site) Jennifer Woodward and Drew Johnson

GPCA Servers as of yy.mm.dd: (documents as works in progress)

• IT/Servers: Overview of GPCA Servers in-use, desired; existing and expected server issues.
• IT/Servers/GPCA Server Management:
  • IT/Servers/CAGreens D7 Server Backups: Thomas Leavitt (hosts server), Cameron Spitzer (hosts backup to server)
  • IT/Servers/CAGreens NB Server Backups: Thomas Leavitt (hosts server), Rich Zitola

GPCA EMail Lists and Newletters: (documents as works in progress; for the state party, county parties, local parties, campaigns (past, present, future)

• IT/Email: Overview of GPCA Email lists and list services: past, present, and 1+ possible future scenarios.
  • IT/Email/GPCA Email List Management: Managers: Tim Laidman, Mike Feinstein, Sasha Karlik, and others to be recruited. (e-lists on a GPCA server)
  • IT/D7 Site EMail Lists: Rich Zitola, Ajay Rai, Jennifer Woodward
  • IT/NB Site EMail Lists: Rich Zitola

GPCA Systems Administration: (documents as works in progress)

• IT/SysAdm: Overview of Systems Administration Issues, Processes and Procedures (past, present, future) for the GPCA state-wide, per county, per local party and per campaign; sites: desired and actual; databases: desired and actual. (Re: databases see also Content Mgmt above)
  • IT/SysAdm/GPCA Database Management: Overview (includes plans to consolidate too many disparate db's sooner than later)
  • IT/SysAdm/GPCA CMSes Management: Overview...
  • IT/SysAdm/Pantheon Drupal7 Sites+DB Mgmt: database(s) for live, test, development, backup(s) sites
  • IT/SysAdm/NationBuilder Sites+DB Mgmt: database(s) for live, test, development, backup(s) sites
  • IT/SysAdm/Drupal7 Sites+DB Mgmt: database(s) for test, development, backup(s) sites
  • IT/SysAdm/Joomla 3+ Sites+DB Mgmt: (if any) live, test, development, backup(s)
  • IT/SysAdm/Wordpress 3+ Sites+DB Mgmt: (if any) for County and local parties, for campaigns. Live, test, development, backup(s).
  • IT/SysAdm/MediaWiki Sites DB Mgmt: GPofCalWIki - Jennifer Woodward (no test or development wiki sites exist; no integration of a live, test, or development wiki site with an official or test GPCA site has yet been demonstrated.)
• IT/D&D/CiviCRM Sites+DB Mgmt: Design and Prototype Development of 1+ Civi Site(s), 0+ Civi integration(s) with any of the above CMSes (e.g. plans, prototypes...). Master-Users-DB Development (e.g. plans, prototypes...). Jennifer Woodward and Drew Johnson

GPCA CMSes: In Use, Planned, Ideals: (documents as works in progress)

• IT/CMSes: Overview of CMSes in use by the GPCA and California County Green Parties with web sites.
  • IT/CMSes/GPCA CMS Website Management: IT/DrupalRoles and IT/Drupal Site Development
  • IT/CMSes/GPofCalWiki Sites Mgmt: live, test, development, backup(s)
  • IT/CMSes/Drupal7 Sites Mgmt: live, test, development, backup(s)
  • IT/CMSes/Joomla 3+ Sites Mgmt: live, test, development, backup(s)
  • IT/CMSes/Wordpress 3 + sites: live, test, development, backup(s). E.g. existing Calif. county and local sites; how to integrate these; how to integrate these with "better" CMSes (techniques, cost-benefit pros, cons).

RANDOM TECHNICAL HOW-TO IT DOCUMENTS (MAY BE OUT OF DATE): IT/Internal and IT/Unix

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