2011 Board Statement
I have been a member of HCoop since 2005; I wrote the Domtool Emacs mode, was involved in the 2009 migration project, started the hcoopstatus Identica group, and am redesigning the member portal. My platform:
- Expand to 150–250 members during the next year and end the pledge system.
- Move HCoop accounts to the National Cooperative Bank or a similar credit union.
- Implement a strong environmental policy when we are financially able to; purchase carbon offsets to compensate for our use of nonrenewable energy.
- Document development processes for our custom software. Recruit more volunteers for system administration tasks. Consider applying to be a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2012.
Last but not least, I will print HCoop T-shirts, finishing the project that NathanKennedy began in 2005. (:
2010 Board Statement
I have been a member of HCoop since 2005; I wrote the Domtool Emacs mode, was involved in the 2009 migration project, started the hcoopstatus Identica group, and am redesigning the member portal. My platform:
- Plan to expand to 150--250 members during the next year and then end the pledge system once we can do so without increasing dues significantly.
- Move HCoop accounts to the National Cooperative Bank or a similar credit union.
- Implement a strong environmental policy when we are financially able to; purchase carbon offsets to compensate for our use of nonrenewable energy.
- Document development processes for our custom software and recruit a fourth admin. Also consider making it possible for admins to delegate certain tasks to trusted non-admins.
Last but not least, I will have HCoop T-shirts printed, finishing the project that NathanKennedy began in 2005. (:
OpenID server
Would it make sense for HCoop to be an OpenID provider? Gracie is a server that authenticates users using PAM, and it's in Debian. We could allow users to register their identity URIs using domtool, as well as supporting http://hcoop.net/~user automatically.
*scratch*
Gitweb URIs: Repo.or.cz uses cleaner URIs than gitweb's defaults -- for example, /w/foo.git/commit/abcdef for viewing an individual commit. We should patch our gitweb script to provide something similar.
It might also be useful to host hgweb and darcsweb instances. At least one user wants to host mercurial repositories, and several of us use darcs.