Service Integrations

While the content of The Programming Historian is tracked and hosted on GitHub, we do use several non-GitHub services to aid our editorial and publishing process.

Github Jekyll repository

• purpose: the home of our code base
• maintained by @ZoeLeBlanc (please update details of who else has admin rights).

Gmail

• [email protected] (please do not email this box as it is not monintored)
• purpose: to provide a shared email box that these service integrations can be linked to.
• maintained by @acrymble and linked to his phone number. Recovery email address is [email protected]
• at present the following people know the password: @acrymble, @drjwbaker, @ZoeLeBlanc, @awc2, @spapastamkou.

Google Groups

• [email protected]

• purpose: for internal emails only for members of the editorial board

• Connected to [email protected] account.

• maintained by @jenniferisasi. @joshuaGOB has admin rights.

• [email protected]

• purpose: for internal emails of English Publication

• maintained by @svmelton.

Google Analytics

• purpose: traffic monitoring statistics
• maintained by @acrymble and @JoshuaGOB is also an admin, also linked to [email protected] account
• notes for transfer: New administrative access and user management accessible via the above email account.

Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)

• purpose: to provide catalogue entries of lessons that can be added easily to library catalogues.
• maintained by: @drjwbaker
• transfer training to be given by @drjwbaker to @anisa-hawes for the March 2022 update, at which point she will take over this service completely.
• at present the following people know the password: @drjwbaker. Any team members who want to know please contact one of those people (you are all welcome to know it). If you need to get in, do a password reset via [email protected].
• notes for transfer:

1. March and September each year.
2. Login in at https://doaj.org/publisher/ (linked to [email protected])
3. Sort existing entries by date at DOAJ (e.g. https://doaj.org/toc/2397-2068) and identify new lessons: for EN https://programminghistorian.org/en/lessons/?sortType=date&sortOrder=desc, for ES https://programminghistorian.org/es/lecciones/?sortType=date&sortOrder=desc
4. Manually enter at https://doaj.org/publisher/metadata. Be sure to note volume number from 2019 onwards (note done for 2018 as volume numbers implemented half way through the year). For abstract, use a logical combination of header abstract and introduction.

Sherpa / Romeo

• purpose: a database that holds details of our publication's re-use policies (eg open access, embargoes, etc)
• maintained by @acrymble
• no password and no direct account details. Updates are made using their online forms.
• currently lists English, Spanish, French publications.
• our entry: https://v2.sherpa.ac.uk/id/publisher/62625

Netlify

• purpose: live web previews of pull requests
• maintained by: @ZoeLeBlanc
• Login is limited to the technical team lead (for maintenance) and the finance manager (for paying occasional charges for build minutes, etc.)

Twitter

• purpose: to tweet about news and content
• maintained by @jenniferisasi (administrator), @anisa-hawes
• The account is linked to the following email: [email protected]

Twitter bot

• purpose: Pre-compose tweets
• maintained by: @zoeleblanc (with the programming historian gmail account as owner/backup login)
• notes for transfer: App is hosted at Heroku, which requires a Heroku account (currently linked to the Programming Historian gmail). The app uses Twitter credentials (the ProgHist Twitter account) as well as a Google Sheets keychain that exists can generated from the Google Cloud Console - instructions on the repo for the Programming Historian Bot. New admin would need to generate new custom keychain for Google Sheets (or get the old one emailed to them), and ensure they have push privileges to Heroku.

Domain Name

• purpose: Gives us the custom url programminghistorian.org
• maintained by: Jessica Otis [email protected]. If contact required, email Jessica cc'ing [email protected] (center administrator) or [email protected] (systems administrator).

Cloudflare

• purpose: Provides HTTPS
• maintained by: @mdlincoln This person is no longer a member of the team. This needs urgent action
• notes for transfer: Current admin removes programminghistorian.org from their Cloudflare account, allowing a new admin to add it to their Cloudflare account.

Zenodo

• purpose: deposit location for project citation.
• maintained by: @drjwbaker @anisa-hawes
• notes: annual (each November). Use process at https://guides.github.com/activities/citable-code/ to create a deposit from https://github.com/programminghistorian/jekyll. Latest deposit at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3525082.

Patreon

• purpose: accepting donations
• maintained by: @drjwbaker, linked to [email protected] account
• at present the following people know the password: @acrymble, @drjwbaker. If you need to get in, do a password reset via [email protected].
• Linked to Paypal for scheduled check out 5th of each month.

Paypal

• purpose: accepting donations and processing Patreon
• maintained by: @drjwbaker, linked to [email protected] account
• at present the following people know the password: @acrymble, @drjwbaker. Any team members who want to know please contact one of those people (you are all welcome to know it). If you need to get in, do a password reset via [email protected].

YouTube

• purpose: publishing PH workshop video materials
• maintained by: @mariajoafana, linked to [email protected] account
• notes: password same as gmail account

Private repo for management of project and business documentation

• purpose: archive of project (e.g. bids or internal surveys) and business (e.g. incorporation) documents that we deem necessary to keep private from the public but to which the Editorial Board need periodic access (e.g. when writing bids, talks, or papers) https://github.com/programminghistorian/project-and-business-archive
• maintained by: @drjwbaker
• note: document containing sensitive and private financial information are held offline, a listing for which is at /project-and-business-archive/business/Finances/. Access requests can be made by contacting @drjwbaker.

Companies House

• purpose: to update ProgHist Ltd listing (e.g. list of directors) and file accounts with Companies House (UK)
• maintained by: @drjwbaker
• at present the following people know the password: @acrymble, @drjwbaker. Any ProgHist Ltd Directors who want to know please contact one of those people (you are all welcome to know it).

Charity Commission

• purpose: to register as a charity in the UK
• maintained by: @drjwbaker
• at present the following people know the password: @acrymble, @drjwbaker. Any ProgHist Ltd Directors who want to know please contact one of those people (you are all welcome to know it).

Xero

• purpose: bookkeeping and financial planning
• maintained by: @drjwbaker
• at present the following people know the password: @drjwbaker, @acrymble

Perma.cc

• purpose: limit link rot
• maintained by: @hawc2
• login using shared gmail
• at present the following people know the password: @drjwbaker @hawc2