[LGM] Quest for a new LGM server

[ale rimoldi]

Dear LGMers

After this year's LGM we have built a small team that is taking care of
the LGM "Internet" infrastucture (web, email, irc, ...).

One of the important decisions we should take is about moving to a new
server.

First, we would like to thank the Scribus for having provided us a home
for many years, but it's time now to move to a place that better suits
our needs.

We have two propositions and we are happy about further  offers /
hints. More about it later in this email.

Before we can talk about the server, we should talk about which
services the server should provide to us. The discussions in the team
has lead to the following proposition:

- We plan to stay with Wordpress for the website.
- We would like to keep on using Wordpress for managing the forms and
  lists (participants, talk submissions, ...). We might stay with
  Gravity Forms or move to a different solution.
- We want to provide email aliases @libregraphicsmeeting.org

There are other services that we are running or we plan to run that
will be hosted on other servers (like the mailing list hosted on
freedesktop, the irc bots) and do not influence this choice.

If this setup is ok fort the LGMers, we think that a simple shared
hosting should already meet our needs.

We have two propositions:

- https://www.gandi.net/hebergement/simple?language=php&db=mysql
- https://www.metanet.ch/hosting/webhosting

and we're happy to evaluate other proposals!

Now, it's time for you to give us some feedback about our plans.

Greetings

Ale, Camille, Manuel, Martin, and Sarup