TO: COMO Wally Smith, DCOMary Kirkwood, DCOS,Ann Zocchi, DCAPT-S

FROM: Mart Gardner, DSO-CS

CC: District Board, Staff, ADSO-CS, SO-CS & FSO-CS

SUBJ: District 11 Northern, Communication Services (CS) November’s Report

Topics Summary:✔ InMotion Hosting will Replace Successful Hosting✔ District Garage Sale Page On Hold

✔ WOW Training✔ District Web Site Down

• InMotion Hosting will Replace Successful Hosting; ◦ After more than 6 weeks reviewing hosting offers, the CS team has chosen InMotion Hosting to take over for Successful

Hosting who will be closing the hosting side of their business in December. ◦ With this move we will have a Web page offer for anyone who does not want to move to WOW at this time. The District

CS team will not support, move, setup, or edit this pages. None the less with our move to InMotion we will have a web platform.

◦ The District’s email will be moving to InMotion over the next two months. With the move let me remind you that if you are now storing any old emails, they will be lost with the move. It’s up to you to download, print or other wise save them before the move.

• District Garage Sale Page On Hold; With the work on moving to a new hosting server, the District Garage Sale Page was put on hold. Now with the need to move all the files to the new site the Garage Sale page will not be ready until the first part of 2018.

• WOW Training; I don’t have an update on this training. I thank all of you who have contacted me about it. Look for more about the training in December.

• District Web Site Down; Over the past few weeks you may have see that the District web site has been unreachable at times. This is not just our site but the whole WOW system is down. To test and see if it’s just our site or the whole WOW system down try going to “wow.uscgaux.info” This is the general login screen for all District sites. If you can’t get to this it’s more than just our site down. I don’t know why it keeps going down, but I’m looking into what happing. I will tell you more if, I can, next time.

• ADSO-CS Staff; The District ADSO-CS (ADSO-CS reports are included in the DSO-CS report) ◦ Mike Thompson, 7-2 (Deputy & ePostmaster)◦ Raymond Flissinger, 3-1 (R - Response)◦ Christopher Ince Jr., 10-6 (DIRAUX, PIO, Members)◦ Dyane Mohr, 1-4 (P - Prevention)

◦ Anthony Thorsson, 1-7 (S - Support)◦ Glenna Gardner, 7-2 (Calendars)◦ Carl Henning, 7-6 (Developer, ePostmaster)

• Division and Flotilla report summaries; (Summary of reports received from Division SO-CS and/or Flotilla FSO-CS officers) ◦ Division 01, SO-CS Dyane Mohr, report received

▪ Reports all Flotilla and the Division sites are working.◦ Division 03, SO-CS Ernest Shih, report received.

▪ Flotilla 3-3 reports a flyer for Division 3 COW has been created. ▪ All other flotilla’s reported no changes, all is working.

◦ Division 04, SO-CS Zacary Wilson, No report received◦ Division 05, VCDR Jon Sargent, report received

▪ Flotilla’s are updating as needed. ▪ Flotilla 5-3 reports their Facebook has been updated▪ Flotilla 5-5 reports; they were requested by Div 5 Wil Sumner to populate the flotilla’s calendar with it’s annual

reoccurring events once firm dates are arable. Flotilla staff officers can post events to the calendar after they’ve validated with an AUX username/password.Division 06, SO-CS Scott Galloway, No report received

◦ Division 07, SO-CS Rex Miner, no report received◦ Division 08, SO-CS [Open Position], no report received

▪ It’s has been reported that Division 8 webpage is not current. This site needs to be updated or it will be lost in December.

◦ Division 10, SO-CS Chris Ince, no report received◦ Division 11, SO-CS Thomas Komadina, no report received◦ Division 12, SO-CS John Bogert, No report received

End of District CS Report