Collaboration And Supplier Criteria
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We really need to create a set of criteria for how we deal with supplier and collaborative companies/organisations. We are going to get loads, a flood, a torrent of people knocking on TNL's door wanting to collaborate. We wont be able to talk to them all. We need to have filters. So, having criteria is a good first step.
TNL should be really careful when dealing with for-profit/closed-source companies. We should ensure that we always have an open API that would enable any company/organisation to work with us on an equal footing.
We need to have a form for online suppliers to fill out or for us to fill out about them before we make decisions to move to them. Please add to these:
If company is providing online service:
- Do they have real time fail over replicated servers?
- Staging publishing servers and not editing the live code?
- Uninterruptible power supply?
- Bandwidth connects? Redundant? Resilient?
- Keeping rodents away from your hard drives?
- Do they take backups?
- Where are the servers located - multisite?
- What backups are taken? When? Where - offsite?
- Is the software open source and examinable?
- Is the company for-profit or non-profit?
If company is supplying software:
- Is the software open source and examinable?
- Is the company for-profit or non-profit?


