2012 Developer budget

This is currently a draft being put together by Mike Peel. Please help improve it!

Status as of January 2012

Our websites and general online tech needs currently utilize a Virtual Private Server donated and managed by Mike Peel, as well as hosting provided by the Wikimedia Foundation. These needs are (hosted by WMUK unless otherwise stated):

• Wikis
  • Public wiki: hosted by the WMF (tied in with Single User Login)
  • Private wikis (office and board, plus the largely-unused internal wiki)
  • Project wikis (britainloveswikipedia.org)
• Wordpress for our blog
• CiviCRM (with Joomla) for donations
• DirectDebit form (custom software)
• glamwiki.org
• Email

We also have service providers for domain names and SSL certificates.

Upcoming needs and opportunities

• All of the above need maintaining and upgrading
• The direct debit form needs moving from an iframe solution to an API solution, ideally directly integrated with CiviCRM
• Gift Aid for CiviCRM
• QRPedia
• Hosting a mirror of the Wikimedia project dumps
• OTRS/other CRM system
• More robust backup plan
• Security review, and improvements based on the outcome of that review
• Mediawiki development

General approach

Since our needs are so varied in terms of the skills and knowledge they require, and each need does not require a significant amount of work at the current time, our general approach is to hire contractors as needed, and to collaborate with partners where possible.

Infrastructure

• Servers
• SSL certificates
• Domain portfolio