About

Who controls and pays for the website?

Domain Registration

The domain, BarrieGreens.ca, is paid for by some EDAs/CAs. It dates back to when Barrie was one riding and had a joint EDA and CA. It is Erich organizes the payment to the Registrar service. In fact, I think he alternates which org pays for it, from the BSOM EDA and BSOM BI, but it should probably be spread to include the BI EDA and CA. It costs up to $20 a year, probably less. Use the contact admin form for more information.

Website Hosting

For nearly 15 years this website has been hosted by Shawn, who can be contacted with the contact admin. At that time he was a new volunteer with both the federal and provincial Green Parties in Barrie with Erich Jacoby-Hawkins, before the riding was split. As someone in the IT industry, one of his main goals was to have a basic digital footprint for the EDA and CA, including email addresses that looked official. That is, not a free webmail service. Thus was born the BarrieGreens.ca website and email addresses.

All this time the website was hosted on servers rented out of a professional data centre, and he has provided website support based on the needs of all 4 orgs (EDAs and CAs), and managed the email system using Google Workspaces. (Workspaces also includes Google Drive (Docs and Sheets).)

Workspaces is not longer free and we are transitioning back to traditional email. Contact Shawn for all email admin issues, including creating new accounts. (I'll add a link here to a form for people to add new email addresses soon.)

Website Administration

Shawn also made the landing page that directs people to the candidate profiles or riding profile page of the central party's website. In the past the website has used WordPress to host announcements, but that was before most people got their information on social media. Currently, it's only a landing page.