Host a Nextcloud instance for club members

[jwflory]

From a short discussion in IRC with @Serubin about hosting a Nextcloud instance for club members. More details to come soon.

[jwflory]

@ct-martin completed a proof-of-concept over this in the winter break. We'll table this for discussion in the next two weeks.

[ct-martin]

As per eboard meetings:

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 2 core, 4GB RAM 40GB Main OS Disk 100GB Data/Storage Disk

[jwflory]

@ct-martin I'm okay with what works best for the install from our resource pool, but this is blocked by policy decisions. Our requirements may change once we know our use case and how we want to offer this to the club.

[Tjzabel]

@jflory7 understandable. We spoke to @Serubin about this, and he gave the okay for the allocated resources. What exactly is this blocked on?

[jwflory]

@Tjzabel I created this milestone to help visualize the work left to completion.

We can move forward on provisioning the machine (#29) and doing a base install (#30). Customizations and configuration changes (#31) is blocked by defining policy for the server:

1. How do we determine eligibility criteria to receive a NextCloud account?
2. Does this require us to reconsider how we define membership?
3. How do we define access to potentially private data as RITlug's eboard?

And possibly other questions.

[Serubin]

@Tjzabel @jflory7 See https://github.com/RITlug/tasks/issues/29

[ct-martin]

Install done, adding policy to agenda for discussion

[ct-martin]

RITlug has other tasks of higher priority right now so I have put the Nextcloud instance in maintenance mode and moved this issue to the backlog

[jwflory]

@ct-martin None of us have discussed what current priorities are. It would be helpful to get us on the same page so we can understand your thinking here.

[Tjzabel]

@jwflory @ct-martin I am wondering if having a NextCloud instance is a worthy project to undertake at this point in time.

For me personally, I only see having NextCloud as a great tool if we were to replace our Google Drive with it. While having our own NextCloud instance for our members would be a nice-to-have, I'm not sure if it's worth the technical debt we may accrue.

Thoughts?

[ct-martin]

Having an open alternative to our Google Drive would be nice, as well as a place to store backups of photos from events. One thing for policy I would put forward is that we don't give members personal space, and allocate shared group folders for different SIGs. Most of the setup is done, but blocking on a couple infra things.

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@jwflory https://github.com/jwflory @ct-martin https://github.com/ct-martin I am wondering if having a NextCloud instance is a worthy project to undertake at this point in time.

For me personally, I only see having NextCloud as a great tool if we were to replace our Google Drive with it. While having our own NextCloud instance for our members would be a nice-to-have, I'm not sure if it's worth the technical debt we may accrue.

Thoughts?

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[Tjzabel]

@ct-martin hm, interesting. I would like to talk about this before we get much further in the physical infra work. If you wouldn't mind creating an outline or a proof-of-concept for what you think the use-case of NextCloud is, I would love to see that. I would like to know more about what you mean by having shared folders instead of having personal space.

[Tjzabel]

Update

This issue is blocked on me resetting the NextCloud VM root password for @ct-martin.

Second Update

I need to stop writing updates and actually reset the password

[Tjzabel]

Update

Finally reset the password! We're now unblocked with this issue.

Me, @ct-martin and @jrtechs have accounts on the nextcloud box with sudo access.

[Tjzabel]

I'm blocking this issue on #31 for @ct-martin to configure NextCloud for the eboard members to test out.

[ct-martin]

For clarification, #31 is blocked on policy discussion. Eboard members were sent logins over Slack

[Tjzabel]

Hmmm... I'm wondering at this point if we will have bandwidth this semester/year to go through with hosting NextCloud for our club members.

[nlMeminger]

I think this might be too difficult to maintain for everyone in the club. I wouldn’t be opposed to closing this since I know I likely won’t have the bandwidth either.

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Hmmm... I'm wondering at this point if we will have bandwidth this semester/year to go through with hosting NextCloud for our club members.

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[Tjzabel]

Closing as out of scope.