W3C Website redesign - RFP Questions

Coralie et al., this sounds like a fantastic project. The RFP does a solid
job outlining the goals, objectives, and expected outcomes--kudos to the
contributors.

Here are my immediate questions:

1. What are the biggest challenges currently faced when administering W3C
members and managing W3C group operations?

2. Where/how the current website hosted? Has the organizations business
processes and/or technology "stack" been documented?

3. About how much does it cost (yearly) to operate and maintain the website
and related business processes (i.e., hosting, transactional emails, uptime
monitoring services, etc.) Have you discussed a specific budget for this
project or upper limits for operating costs moving forward?

4. Have you had any internal discussion about appropriate CMSs and/or ideal
editorial and administrative workflows?

5. Besides leveraging an open-source analytics library and MFA based on the
webauthn specification, does the W3C have guidelines or preferences related
to platforms/technologies?

6. How has the legacy website being preserved? (Version control? Database
backups? Big ol' zip files on tape-drives in a closet somewhere?)

7. Is website content separate from the presentation-layer (the theme and
global UI) of the website? It sounds like culling/crafting a good bit of
content may be necessary but I'm wondering what could/should be
automatically migrated to preserve legacy and save on manual content
entry.... I don't see how the final process won't be a mix of both
processes.

7. When the redesigned website launches in Dec. 2020, will this include the
areas noted in the RFP as "future phases": *Member and team spaces,
internal (non-restricted) Work Groups homepages, specifications template,
mailing lists archives, W3C Community Groups and Business Groups, wikis*?

8. How will tough decisions be handled? Is the advisory committee purely
democratic or is there a single individual who will be responsible for
"signing off" on decisions made about the
design/architecture/implementation of the redesigned website moving forward?

Thank you,
Joe Daddario
Resilient Systems, LLC