Significant impacts in
ELLA - Information Technology Most significant impacts 2014 Required registration through EventBrite – Considerable use of skill, effort and time to design, build, test, modify, train and troubleshoot Significant loss of expertise – Lost individual volunteer with substantial expertise, skills Board member term complete – Intricate knowledge, experience Continuing Challenges We rely on volunteers from the senior population, both for Board and for workers – Commitment is significant – Travel, Illness a factor – Less inclined to have aptitude for technology (risk - errors) Security, Privacy FOIPP, CASL Online registration and membership will – reduce workload for volunteers
Loss of Expertise
Existing IT Needs Expertise Maintenance – Website (U of A) – EventBrite
IT - Plan / Roadmap Acquire personnel – Train – Allocate Online membership (myella.com) – Link to EventBrite (MySQL) – Payment Gateway Online survey capability Documents & Records – Personal cloud Storage / access
Personnel Needs
Reliance on Volunteers
Use of technology
Website Maintenance myella.com
ELLA Membership Database
Online Survey Capability
Documents & Records Allows for immediate storage and access of all ELLA documents (Governance, Minutes, Manuals, Records, etc.) Avoids loss of control with commercial cloud (subject to U.S. Patriot Act) Devices available for low cost, good utility and low maintenance Access from and applications for mobile devices
University of Alberta Partnership
Impact on Partnership myella.com Independent site – Outside U of A – Collection of membership fees online – No IT support at present MySQL on Wordpress CMS (Content Management System) Ecommerce (WooCommerce) – Merchant Accounts Payment Gateway Shopping cart (undecided) IT Support Loss of expertise – Cost of commercial support prohibitive (support from services from India are available at reasonable costs) – U of A IT support for ELLA website Can Personal Cloud device be maintained at ELLA Office? – (require dedicated static IP address) What restrictions / parameters exist for our U of A website? Can a Community/ Related events / Announcements page be added? Twitter?