Re: [Wikimediach-l] Do we use (american) cloud solutions at WMCH Q

2013-06-11 Diskussionsfäden Emmanuel Engelhart
Le 10/06/2013 23:20, Frédéric Schütz a écrit : Some informal exchanges of files are still done using Dropbox; now is probably a good time to get rid of them. The wiki works now pretty well and Manuel has increased the upload limit to 32MB. IMO, this is the best place to store files which should

Re: [Wikimediach-l] Do we use (american) cloud solutions at WMCH Q

2013-06-11 Diskussionsfäden Emmanuel Engelhart
Le 11/06/2013 11:34, Ilario Valdelli a écrit : Basically I would say that the email is something that allows people to be contacted easily and to be checked easily, but there is also the compromise with the security and the protection of data. The correct approach is in the middle. This

Re: [Wikimediach-l] Do we use (american) cloud solutions at WMCH Q

2013-06-11 Diskussionsfäden Manuel Schneider
Dear all, just a few words. I won't engage in this discussion but I am reading it all. Thanks for bringing up the topic, I hope it makes people more aware of their responsibilities towards the data they handle and I am thankful that through this discussion we found the one case where staff mails

Re: [Wikimediach-l] Do we use (american) cloud solutions at WMCH Q

2013-06-10 Diskussionsfäden Emmanuel Engelhart
Le 10/06/2013 14:41, Hartwig Thomas a écrit : I believe that such a precise list is an illusion. The servers as well as the legal bodies are in the US and thus are subject to US law. Therefore the operators of these servers will do anything the law requires them to do, just as an operator

Re: [Wikimediach-l] Do we use (american) cloud solutions at WMCH Q

2013-06-10 Diskussionsfäden Manuel Schneider
Hi Emmanuel, I can only speak about the processes within WMCH which are know to me or where I am part of. So far these processes mainly use self-hosted IT ressources. On our four server instances we run a variety of services: * mail (SMTP/IMAP) * webserver / content management systems / wikis *

Re: [Wikimediach-l] Do we use (american) cloud solutions at WMCH Q

2013-06-10 Diskussionsfäden Frédéric Schütz
On 10/06/13 19:31, Emmanuel Engelhart wrote: Thank you very much for this detailed answer. Congratulations for making WMCH infrastructure almost not depending of these type of problematic services (not the same in all chapters). Thanks to Manuel, we have a full set of services available