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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoPlainText>Not urgent, but nearly. We should start thinking about how expo members will upload their photos, gpslogs, videos etc.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>With the new server we can't use username&password FTP I understand as only ssh keys are acceptable to the hoster.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>So I will be changing all that documentation about FTP asap.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>We have these choices:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>1.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span><![endif]>Ask the hoster again if we can set up a locked-down ftp server.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>2.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span><![endif]>Write or acquire a Django/python file-upload script so that file uploads are done through a webpage. Easy using a PC, less so for phone users.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>3.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span><![endif]>Educate all expo uses in the use of ssh-keygen so that they can scp from their own phones and laptops to the server. Hah.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>4.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span><![endif]>Require all expo users to use the expo laptop (which has a key installed) and educate them in using scp to upload stuff. They will have to transfer their stuff to the expo laptop and then also upload to the server. No good after expo.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>5.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span><![endif]>Set up a staging FTP server on an entirely different machine (I could offer <a href="ftp://expo.klebos.net">ftp://expo.klebos.net</a> for example) and thus make only minor changes to documentation. (Nerds can then handle the move to the real expo server.)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>6.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span><![endif]>Use a more modern system such as Dropbox, GDrive, GoogleDocs, shared Google Photos albums for which phone apps already exist and which expo users may already know how to use (and then have nerds move them to the real expo server).<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>I reckon that most photos will be on phones so that option (6) has clear usability advantages. After that, I reckon (5) is the most secure and least effort for us.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>In all cases, long-term storage will be on /expofiles/ and not on whatever staging system we use.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Philip<o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>