[Olpc-sysadmin] i-gang meetings notes 9/16/08

[Henry Edward Hardy]

We have a number of documents pertaining to configuration, backup procedures
and passwords for the OLPC servers currently on the OLPC internal wiki. No
volunteers, and few contractors have access to internal wiki. We would like
to be able to share some or most of this information with the Volunteer
Infrastructure Group members without making it available to the general
public.

We want to be able to limit access to just these documents particularly to
VIG members only. One way to do this is through using the lockdown extension
currently installed on the OLPC teamwiki. Using this extension, one way to
have granular access control over the documents would be to have a Volunteer
Infrastructure Group namespace on teamwiki.

I would like to understand if there are any good reasons not to move these
documents from internal wiki to a new VIG namespace on teamwiki. If so,
please suggest better alternatives.

--HH.

On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 11:36 PM, Mel Chua <mel at melchua.com> wrote:

> SJ wanted to avoid making new namespaces in teamwiki - he/I/Kim/Adam had a
> conversation a few days back about how to manage data access / privacy, but
> that conversation was never quite finished since 8.2.0 slammed in. Not sure
> how to pick the convo up again just yet (everyone is hosed, and this
> argument will probably drag out when it comes up again).
>
> A possible different approach to where to port things: who *can't* have
> access to this stuff? (If we moved it into the Team namespace on teamwiki,
> would that work? Do we need to make everyone with access sign an NDA?)
>
> -Mel
>
> Henry Edward Hardy wrote:
>
>> Mel, thanks for the notes.
>>
>> For now, let's copy everything from the sysadmin stuff on internal to a
>> new namespace on teamwiki.
>>
>> --HH.
>>
>> On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 1:25 PM, Mel Chua <mel at laptop.org <mailto:
>> mel at laptop.org>> wrote:
>>
>>    Meeting notes from yesterday's i-gang meeting; apologies for the delay.
>>
>>
>> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC:Volunteer_Infrastructure_Group/2008-09-16
>>
>>    The table of machines I was going to make is already on internalwiki,
>>    https://laptop.org/internalwiki/index.php/Table_of_Machines. We need
>> to
>>    migrate things from internal (and team, if there's stuff there) to
>>    public if possible - I'm willing to do the gruntwork of inter-wiki
>>    copying before things grow too large, if someone can help me flag what
>>    should and shouldn't go public.
>>
>>    --
>>    Mel Chua
>>    QA/Support Engineer
>>    mel at laptop.org <mailto:mel at laptop.org>
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