CNM Cloud Project

CNM Cloud Project (hereinafter, the Project) is an endeavor to provide the Career Network Ministry with CNM Cloud in order to deliver services of CNM Digital. Friends Of CNM Cloud Administrator is responsible and members of Careerprise Team (hereinafter, the Team) shall be accountable for this Project. The Project is a part of Friends Of CNM Program.

Project-wide requirements

Business requirements

Main wikipage: CNM Digital

Solution requirements

Main wikipage: CNM Cloud requirements

CNM Cloud requirements is the best wikipage to overview general solution requirements; however, different parts of the Cloud have their specific requirements that are or shall be published at their wikipages. A big portion of solution requirements is also published in Russian -- https://wiki.ksacerts.com/ru/Брацко_Облако

Phases

Five phases are identified as of December of 2018. The first phase has been accomplished and the second is the current one.

Beginnings -- completed phase

Main wikipage: CNM Cloud Project beginnings

The beginnings of the Project could be characterized by three factors:

1. Many experiments including software ventures and examinations of both technology and various organizational structures designed to support that technology;
2. Unbalanced and often disruptive availability of resources. Although the Team enjoyed assistance of a number of volunteers, donor's money, software subscriptions, and venues, the Team's inability to pay for technology sustainability ultimately led to several adverse events including the major technology crash in 2016 and further necessity to destroy the first cloud.
3. Poor recording, documenting, and storage facilities. For instance, just few training materials were saved and just a couple of videos were taken at hundreds of training sessions. As a result, volunteer time could be utilized way more efficiently.

Nonetheless, a few significant concepts, lessons learned, and lines of code were developed during this initiating phase of the Project.

Embryo -- current phase

Main wikipage: CNM Cloud Project embryo

Several concepts, lessons learned, and pieces of software that was developed in the CNM Cloud Project beginnings have been utilized in the successor phase. The Team calls the new phase Embryo because the embryo of the new cloud is going to be developed during this phase. The key developments could be summarized as follows. The Team:

1. Identified:
   • Business needs. These needs are expressed in User stories for the embryo;
   • System architecture including the core package of technology that would support User stories for the embryo;
2. Designed and is implementing a new recruitment process based on the core package of developed technology;
3. Dramatically increased funding for both technology development and recruitment.

Organization -- future phase

CNM Ventureware based on an Odoo instance shall be the primary deliverable of the third phase. Other deliverables may include Eventtune, CNM Calendar, CNM Videoshareware, CNM Mailware, CNM Talkware. New sprints of Opplet.net are also expected.

Security -- future phase

Private clouds such as Dev Cloud, Production Cloud, and Control Cloud shall be primary deliverables of the fourth phase of the Project.

Fifth phase (future) -- federation

At the fifth phase of the Project, the initial requirements, CNM Digital by Loredana C, shall be revised and tested on the completion. This phase is also reserved for any developments, especially federations, that haven't been accomplished in the previous phases.

Current state

Developers

Three members of the development group who are currently working on the Project are as follows:

1. Romanof. As the PHP sub-project manager and developer, Romanof developed all working parts of the existing technology. Romanof also documented in Fixett a deal of the work done;
2. Gary Ihar. As the product owner, Gary is drafting documentation in CNM Wiki on every software included in the second phase;
3. Natalia. As a vendor liaison, Natalia is working on CNM Wikiware documentation.

Completion rates

The DADP is the development cycle that includes 4 components: (1) discover, (2) analyze, (3) design, and (4) plan. No component is fully developed to the date. The following table presents estimates on every component of every software to be launched:

CNM software		Service	Sprint	Description	DADP component
					Discover	Analyze	Design	Plan
Platform	Infrastructure	(temporarily, outsourced)	Second	Requirements and designs are drafted in Russian in Fixett; DigitalOcean is temporarily used for implementations	90%	90%	90%	90%
	Middleware	Opplet.net	Fourth	Requirements and designs are drafted in Russian in Fixett; Opplet.net handles user management for CNM Cloud	75%	75%	75%	75%
Apps
	Productware	Fixett	Second	Requirements and designs are drafted in Russian in Fixett; the current implementation is located at a classified URL	50%	50%	50%	50%
	Courseware	Campus	Second	Requirements and designs are drafted in Russian in Fixett and English in CNM Wiki; the current implementation is located at https://campus.ksacerts.com	25%	25%	25%	25%
	Wikiware	Wiki	Second	Requirements and designs are drafted in Russian in Fixett and English in CNM Wiki; the current implementations are located at https://wiki.ksacerts.com and, in Russian, at https://wiki.ksacerts.com/ru	90%	90%	90%	90%
	Publicware	CNM website	Second	Requirements and designs are drafted in English in CNM Wiki; some implementations launched in the first sprint include worldopp.org and careernetworkministry.org	25%	10%	10%	0%

Challenges

Lack of procurement documentation is still the primary obstacle for the Project to move forward faster. There are a plenty of developers ready to implement technical requirements, but those requirements are needed to be documented. If some backup has been de-facto implemented, the state of cyber-security is either inappropriate or unknown.

Vacancies

Neither education nor experience is needed for the vacancies listed below. Full-time (at least, 40 hours a week) availability and willingness to learn on the job (and any learning includes so-called "errors" and "mistakes") are absolute musts. Since English language is the primary medium at Friends Of CNM, some level of English capacity is needed as well.

• Urgently needed. Any assistance with documentation published at CNM Wiki for upcoming procurement or topics related to procurement of CNM Wikiware, CNM Courseware, CNM Productware, CNM Publicware, CNM Infrastructure is urgently needed. These topics may include any information on what needs to be done, how to select the best vendor, and how to make sure that the chosen vendor has delivered the requested product.
• Needed on an ongoing basis. As always, the Team is hiring staffers of WorldOpp Fellow Staff generally and Friends Of CNM Cloud Administrator specifically to expedite the Project.