Agreed! Thanks for all the care and concern you put into this, Casey! On Sat, Feb 22, 2020 at 9:48 AM Ginny Ward <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Thank you so much for your dedication to all things technical, Casey!!! > > Get Outlook for iOS <https://aka.ms/o0ukef> > ------------------------------ > *From:* - MEEOA-L - Maine Educational Opportunity Association members > communication <[log in to unmask]> on behalf of Casey Henderson < > [log in to unmask]> > *Sent:* Friday, February 21, 2020 10:54:57 AM > *To:* [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]> > *Subject:* MEEOA website migration > > 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 > > -- > Casey O. Henderson > Technology Specialist > Maine Educational Outreach Programs > 308 Chadbourne Hall, Orono, ME 04469-5713 > Tel: (207) 581-3707 Fax: (207)-581-2532 > Email: [log in to unmask] > -- *Mary Sinclair* Student Services Coordinator Upward Bound University of Maine at Farmington 252 Main Street Farmington, ME 04938 207.778.7429 (w) 207.712.2930 (c) Toll Free: 1.888.237.1667 http://upwardbound.umf.maine.edu pronouns: she/her