Transfer MyPaint.Org Domain

[odysseywestra]

@jonnor would you be interested in transferring the mypaint.org domain to the same place as the mypaint.app domain? We are working on getting a new website up and running that is being made by @AesaraB. The plan is to make the mypaint.app domain just forward to the mypaint.org domain. To do that, I need to transfer all the .app DNS info over to the .org domain. and since we have no access to the mythicbeast's nameservers, it is currently impossible to do that. Also it is easier to do a domain forwarding within the same domain host than it is from two separate accounts. I can handle the costs of the domain registration through the Open Collective we set up a few years back and want to start using those funds to handle the day-to-day costs for domains, development, and the community forums.

I also would be interested in inviting you and any of the @mypaint/core team to be admins to help accept or decline transaction requests. Plus I would like some accountability before I feel comfortable to using the funds.
https://opencollective.com/mypaint

Let me know if you want to move forward.

[jonnor]

Hi. Yes, I am completely open to transferring the domain to a registrar in control of active administrators. Just give me the instructions (probably per email), and I will try to get to it within a week or so.

It would be highly beneficial if the registrar is accessible by multiple people. Is that currently the case?

[martinxyz]

As you know, I prefer to hand out the keys to anyone who is actually doing work :-) Which I'm currently not. But if you can't find enough people to serve as a back-up for something, then drop me a note, I'll still do that.

[odysseywestra]

Thank you all for stepping up to help me figure this out.

@jonnor With regards to instructions its a simple as unlocking the domain and sending me a Auth Code to initiate a transfer. Can take up to a week for the transfer to complete, but hover is fairly fast and I'm not in a hurry for it to complete.
The email on my profile is attached to a protonmail account so if you have a protonmail that should make secure email a breeze. If not, I do have a matrix account I can give you that we can secure chat on that as well.

https://help.hover.com/hc/en-us/articles/217281697-Transferring-a-domain-into-Hover

With regards to password sharing, I thought about using Bitwarden but it can cost a fair bit the more users we add to the organization. I can do a family account, but we would be limited to 6 users don't have fine grain groups and permissions which I can work without. I am doing a free organization test with @jplloyd at the moment and he is set as the owner of the organization account. I don't know if Bitwarden has gifted organization account to opensource projects so I'll just have to ask and find out. I'm open to other ideas, but I'm partial to Bitwarden since I personally use it too.

@Jehan Thank you volunteering to help me the open collective account and being a true third party to help keep it organize and me accountable. The one thing I need help is creating tiers and be a voice in what we are doing with the funds. Right now it's mainly being used to cover the costs of the domains and in the future will be used to cover the costs of the community fourms and costs for github if any. If you are okay with helping with that and get a sense on how open collective works and whether you want to use it for GIMP. If you do, I'll be happy to be part of that collective too.

@martinxyz Thank you. I'm glad you are still around. If you are interested, you could help @AesaraB with documentation of the brush engine since you of all us have a better understanding of how it works.

[AesaraB]

Off topic discussion has been moved to the discourse forums, you can log into the forums with GitHub.

• Contributors and funding
• MyPaint's infrastructure and the costs thereof

[odysseywestra]

@jonnor let me know when you are ready. If you want to use Matrix instead of my email, it should be discoverable via my email as well.

[AesaraB]

@jonnor bumping this thread, http://mypaint.org now lands on a domain expiry page.

[odysseywestra]

@jonnor just checking in with ya about the domain transfer. I did email you about that as well.

[AesaraB]

@odysseywestra where are we with this?