Social.Coop Tech Working Group 2024 Roadmap

Objective

To define high level goals for the Tech Working Group of Social.Coop to explore during 2024, and request review/comment from the wider community.

Meta

• See https://anagora.org/twg pull for other resources associated with the #TWG, or search for that hashtag in the social.coop instance.
• Consider joining the TWG or Open chat rooms in our Social.Coop Matrix Space.

Projects

These are projects currently being run by the Tech Working Group, together with high level next steps we have identified for them. They are in priority order:

• wiki.social.coop
  • Moved to [[mediawiki]] running on top of [[coop cloud]] during 2023.
  • Next steps:
    • Pretty stable/usable as of the time of writing.
• SSO
  • auth.social.coop now exists, running on top of [[keycloak]] on [[coop cloud]].
  • Next steps:
    • Backup/restore of users
    • Keeping users in sync with other sources we have currently:
      • loomio
      • social.coop instance (Mastodon)
• Nextcloud with SSO
  • Or a calendar-only service with SSO
  • Would make recurring coordination of social.coop events much more inclusive
• Mastodon (main instance)
  • Many upgrades took place, and we moved to a new server :)
  • Next steps:
    • Move to Hometown: yay or nay?
• Bonfire (for a second instance)
  • bonfire.social.coop nominally up for experimental usage.
  • Next steps:
    • Configure SSO (Mayel sent a build to try)
    • Test federation fixes once they’re there
• Monitoring and alerting
  • Monitor further items in datadog
  • Or adopt a free monitoring platform (which?)
  • Items we need to make sure we cover:
    • Basic uptime monitoring
    • Instance latency and errors
• General
  • [[Flancian]] tested backups for the wiki, restores come next :)
  • Convergence between [[ansible]]-based and [[coop cloud]]-based infrastructure might be desirable in the future, but better bang-for-the-buck might be found elsewhere.
  • [[Bots]]:
    • Help [[ntnsndr]] host his bot
    • Run [[boost bot]] for the community, in particular the CWG would like to [[boost introductions]]

Other topics of interest

• Organizing circle participation might yield a steady stream of feedback from other working groups.
• The recurring domain name ownership issue is being tackled by the FWG.