Masonry Deputy - Lochac Infrastructure Support Site

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Current Masonry Status - Oct 2010

The onging Masonry project of changing to the lochac.sca.org domain for all "in game" websites, mailing lists and email addresses has progressed well and nearly everything has been changed.

NB: If you are responsible for maintaining web sites, please DEFEND "something@lochac.sca.org" email addresses on web pages from spam by instead using this form: "something@lochac.sca.org". This obfuscated variant works in your browsers just fine, and helps create a small but long-term advantage for us all by reducing harvesting by spambots.
It is also adviseable to do the same for all email addressses appearing on SCA websites.

Outstanding issues are backups of the servers and repairs to the secondary AU server.

All contact with the Masonry team is via the email address masonry@lochac.sca.org. Please do not email the Masonry Team on their provate email addresses except when you have been contacted by them directly.

Please report problems to the Masonry Deputy, via masonry@lochac.sca.org.

Projects

Known projects in the works, with relevant champions are:

Future Projects

These options are listed here so they aren't lost in the traffic, but have no particular timeframe

Repeating Tasks, typically annual

Servers and Administrators

The following servers and administrators are known to be supporting two or more sites or activities in the Kingdom of Lochac. Not all receive direct support from the Masonry budget. If there's a significant server not mentioned here, please get in touch.

Budget

Lochac (Kingdom Exchequer), SCA Australia and SCA New Zealand all contribute funds to support this office. The budget approved for 2010 is $A600 from SCAA, $NZ150 from SCANZ and matching funds in both countries from Kingdom. Allowing for the balances brought forward from 2009 (see below), all being held in the Kingdom accounts, the balances available for 2010 are:

2010 $A Balance remaining: $1790.51 (held in Kingdom account, managed by Exchequer on request from the Masonry Deputy)
2010 $NZ Balance remaining: $343.39 (held in NZ Kingdom "01/11" account, managed by NZ Deputy Exchequer on request from the Masonry Deputy)

2009 Income and expenditure

Under the original proposal, the first year's funding was roughly double what was expected in future years, to allow for purchase of a new main Kingdom server and other hardware catch-ups. The total allocated for 2009 was $A2,000 and $NZ500 respectively. Expenditure during 2009 was:

2009 $A Balance carried forward to 2010: $590.51 (held in Kingdom account, managed by Exchequer)
2009 $NZ Balance carried forward to 2010: $43.39 (held in NZ Kingdom "01/11" account, managed by NZ Deputy Exchequer)

Original Proposal

For reference, the full proposal which led to the establishment of the Masonry office is available here.

Technical Data

Herewith some technical information for the key servers receiving support (or likely to) from this office:

People with administrator access to sca.org.au: Raoul, William de Cameron, Will of Rowany. People with administrator access to sca.org.nz: William de Cameron, William de Wyke. People with sca.org.au DNS access: William de Cameron, Raoul, Bartholomew. People with lochac.sca.org and sca.org.nz DNS access: William de Cameron, William de Wyke.