From sam at lanfranco.net Sun Sep 1 18:08:35 2019 From: sam at lanfranco.net (Sam Lanfranco) Date: Sun, 1 Sep 2019 11:08:35 -0400 Subject: [NCSG-FC] Looking forward: our collaboration with Wapix In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <6603681c-10b0-6e26-41f6-6bfee6ba7dd9@lanfranco.net> For those who are new, or were not at the Marrakesh meeting, WAPIX.BR has been hired to help better develop a CIVICRM Database management system to improve our membership approval processes, and better manage our membership database. Sam L. On 8/31/2019 4:19 PM, Raphaël Beauregard-Lacroix wrote: > Dear all, > > I hope this email finds you well and that you are enjoying the last > days of August. > > Wapix is now done developing the backend application that tracks > requests for information that are routinely sent out by Maryam during > the new members' review process. We are now out of development blocks > with them, meaning they will not develop additional features for us > until we buy more blocks. > > There was a discussion in Marrakech regarding an eventual change of > provider, given the price of our current one. I think there would be > substantial risk in doing something like that, while also giving up on > a relatively good working relationship we now have with Wapix. > > So I will now reach out to Josh (our contact) to see what can be done > re development blocks; how much could they offer us and at what price. > Once he comes back with something, I will be back to you here. > > We would have some use for such blocks, notably for the front-end part > of the thing they just developed, as well as for various updates to > core components of the back-end. > > In the meantime: > > -If someone wants to embark on the great journey of figuring out an > alternative that would be cheaper, please declare yourself and do so! > > -Who would pay for such an additional expense? We just "bill" ICANN > like we do now? Something else? > > As an aside, I think the question above is also highly relevant for > those of you who may support changing provider, as surely such an > operation would involve a non-negligible amount of money to be paid to > such new provider for due diligence and other types of preliminary > assessments. > > The only option not involving any further money is doing nothing, > which is also an option. I.e. we pay the monthly fee and Wapix fixes > the small things that break here and there. > > And finally, thank you again Stephanie for accepting to literally lend > money to ICANN by making your credit card available for our provider's > recurring fee and patiently waiting for refunds... > > A nice day to all of you, > > Raphael > > > _______________________________________________ > NCSG-FC mailing list > NCSG-FC at lists.ncsg.is > https://lists.ncsg.is/mailman/listinfo/ncsg-fc -- ------------------------------------------------ "It is a disgrace to be rich and honored in an unjust state" -Confucius 邦有道，贫且贱焉，耻也。邦无道，富且贵焉，耻也 ------------------------------------------------ Dr Sam Lanfranco (Prof Emeritus), Econ, York U., CANADA email: sam at lanfranco.net Skype: slanfranco blog: https://samlanfranco.blogspot.com Phone: +1 613-476-0429 cell: +1 416-816-2852 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rbeauregardlacroix at gmail.com Thu Sep 26 21:15:37 2019 From: rbeauregardlacroix at gmail.com (=?UTF-8?Q?Rapha=C3=ABl_Beauregard=2DLacroix?=) Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2019 14:15:37 -0400 Subject: [NCSG-FC] Looking forward: our collaboration with Wapix In-Reply-To: <6603681c-10b0-6e26-41f6-6bfee6ba7dd9@lanfranco.net> References: <6603681c-10b0-6e26-41f6-6bfee6ba7dd9@lanfranco.net> Message-ID: Hi all First thanks Sam for the precision; although for those interested you might have an easier time figuring out who wapix is at wapix.co ;) In any case, they are offering 950$/10 hours. They will also be rolling out a new monthly plan (TBA in October) that will include a few development hours over the course of the plan. Depending on the price I believe that might be a (more) interesting solution for us. In any case I keep you informed of that new thing as soon as I have the information. And then we can put that on the agenda for Montreal. Best, On Sun, Sep 1, 2019 at 11:08 AM Sam Lanfranco wrote: > For those who are new, or were not at the Marrakesh meeting, WAPIX.BR > has been hired to help better develop a CIVICRM > Database management system to improve our membership approval processes, > and better manage our membership database. > > Sam L. > > On 8/31/2019 4:19 PM, Raphaël Beauregard-Lacroix wrote: > > Dear all, > > I hope this email finds you well and that you are enjoying the last days > of August. > > Wapix is now done developing the backend application that tracks requests > for information that are routinely sent out by Maryam during the new > members' review process. We are now out of development blocks with them, > meaning they will not develop additional features for us until we buy more > blocks. > > There was a discussion in Marrakech regarding an eventual change of > provider, given the price of our current one. I think there would be > substantial risk in doing something like that, while also giving up on a > relatively good working relationship we now have with Wapix. > > So I will now reach out to Josh (our contact) to see what can be done re > development blocks; how much could they offer us and at what price. Once he > comes back with something, I will be back to you here. > > We would have some use for such blocks, notably for the front-end part of > the thing they just developed, as well as for various updates to core > components of the back-end. > > In the meantime: > > -If someone wants to embark on the great journey of figuring out an > alternative that would be cheaper, please declare yourself and do so! > > -Who would pay for such an additional expense? We just "bill" ICANN like > we do now? Something else? > > As an aside, I think the question above is also highly relevant for those > of you who may support changing provider, as surely such an operation would > involve a non-negligible amount of money to be paid to such new provider > for due diligence and other types of preliminary assessments. > > The only option not involving any further money is doing nothing, which is > also an option. I.e. we pay the monthly fee and Wapix fixes the small > things that break here and there. > > And finally, thank you again Stephanie for accepting to literally lend > money to ICANN by making your credit card available for our provider's > recurring fee and patiently waiting for refunds... > > A nice day to all of you, > > Raphael > > > _______________________________________________ > NCSG-FC mailing listNCSG-FC at lists.ncsg.ishttps://lists.ncsg.is/mailman/listinfo/ncsg-fc > > -- > ------------------------------------------------ > "It is a disgrace to be rich and honored in an > unjust state" -Confucius > 邦有道，贫且贱焉，耻也。邦无道，富且贵焉，耻也 > ------------------------------------------------ > Dr Sam Lanfranco (Prof Emeritus), Econ, York U., CANADA > email: sam at lanfranco.net Skype: slanfranco > blog: https://samlanfranco.blogspot.com > Phone: +1 613-476-0429 cell: +1 416-816-2852 > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: