See also ServerGoals, which is more administrative/political.

Base Configuration

• Put a stop to these ServerOverloads
• Improve ServerBackups
• Monitoring
  • Internal monitoring of health: space, system load, errors, etc.
  • External monitoring of service availability
    • At one time BillMcGonigle had some monitoring probes running
  • Notification mechanisms are still vague
    • I think we have two different mailing lists (for redundancy)...?
    • Some kind of SMS/etc notification would be nice
  • More sophisticated outside probes
    • more then just a simple ping or TCP connect
    • SMTP relay test?
    • check a web page time stamp?

Web

See: WebToDo

Mail services and mailing lists

See ServerMail for details, planning, and discussion on all this.

• Figure out what to do with system mail.
• Archives have a few broken messages from the migration.
• Recover mail lost when archives were busted.
• More sophisticated anti-spam solutions.
• Better mail list archives (vs stock GNU Mailman)
  • Doesn't split messages properly when rebuilding (see ServerMailLists)
  • Email address obfuscation (against spammer address harvesting)
  • Search
  • Public archives
  • Easier/better/nicer navigation
  • Options to consider:
    • http://www.sympa.org/
    • http://www.mhonarc.org/
    • http://www.namazu.org/

New applications

There are applications of the technology that could really benefit us.

• Automated meeting announcements (yippie!)
• Dedicated calendar software (integrated with the above)
• Web-based job database (job seekers and job openings), easily postable and searchable without needing a mailing list
• Poll/survey software
• RSVP software for the meetings

You get the idea. Suggestions welcome.