[Infrastructure] Meeting Minutes / Etherpad

[Wayne Thayer]

What are the requirements? If this is for collaborating on minutes that
will then be published somewhere permanent, do we need to worry about
losing the data? And if these are unpublished minutes, do they need to be
secured? These answers might favor one solution over the other. Meanwhile,
I don't have a strong preference.

On Thu, Nov 7, 2019 at 7:29 AM Jos Purvis (jopurvis) <jopurvis at cisco.com>
wrote:

> The experiment with using Etherpad for minute-taking during the meetings
> seemed to go OK this time. While observing the minutes assembly (and Ryan’s
> observation that Etherpad-as-a-service will be discontinued in December), I
> noted to Wayne that we could easily stand up an Etherpad service on a CABF
> host. He wondered whether there were advantages to doing that vs. Google
> Docs (which people are likely more familiar with), and the only real
> advantage I could come up with was that by doing it on a CABF server, we
> could ensure that copies of documents weren’t “owned” in Google by any
> single member. That might not be a good trade-off, though, so I thought I’d
> toss it here and see what people thought. We came up with a couple
> possibilities:
>
>    1. Run Etherpad on a CABF server and use it for official minutes,
>    encouraging (not requiring) members to use it.
>    2. Encourage the use of GDocs for collaborative work, but create a
>    cabf at gmail.com or similar account that could be added to each
>    document. A little scripting, and that CABF shared account could likely
>    make a backup copy of any document it’s added to, ensuring that the CABF
>    always has copies of materials that will survive individual members.
>    3. Jos is again inventing a solution for a non-existent problem, and
>    we’re probably good to keep going how we are. :)
>
>
>
> Thoughts?
>
>
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