Hi all,

I am writing to inform you about some upcoming changes to the MEEOA
website. At our board meetings this past year, we have been discussing
moving the MEEOA website to a third-party commercial hosting company
(similar to what we did with the NEOA website last summer, for those of you
that were around for that project). The MEEOA website is currently hosted
on a computer in my office, and I am the only one with administrative
access to the site. This is not ideal, as it makes it difficult to recruit
help for various things, and it would also be a problem if at some point I
were unable to work on the site for any reason, as nobody else would have
access to the site. Additionally, the web server is due for a hardware and
software upgrade, and those upgrades will cause us to lose some features
that we're currently using.

To solve these problems, I am going to migrate the website to a third-party
hosting company. This process will require a few days of downtime. The
MEEOA listserv is unaffected - the mailing list will continue to be hosted
through the University of Maine's Listserv system, and the MEEOA mailing
list will be available while the website is down. I plan to take down the
MEEOA website for the migration on Wednesday, February 26th at 9:00 AM, and
I expect to have it back up and running by Friday, February 29th. I will
post a reminder before the downtime begins, and another message after the
site is up and running again. If there are any unexpected delays along the
way, I will keep you posted about that as well. I appreciate your patience
while we make these important changes to our website, to better serve our
members and our students.

Casey Henderson
MEEOA Webmaster

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Casey O. Henderson
Technology Specialist
Maine Educational Outreach Programs
308 Chadbourne Hall, Orono, ME  04469-5713
Tel:  (207) 581-3707  Fax: (207)-581-2532
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