add notes on user-facing architecture

meeting-notes/2024-11-06 standup notes.md

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 Attendees: Kevin, Koen, Valentin, Robert, Ronny
 
 * Koen:
-  * Björn is getting on board thsi week to help with communications until at least March 2025
+  * Björn is getting on board this week to help with communications until at least March 2025
 * Robert:
   * Completed the planned improvements to logging
   * Managed to deploy a service via Proxmox from scatch yesterday
 * (rehashing progress of the past week)
 
 Availability in the next weeks:
-	* Nicolas: about 4.5 days/ week
-	* Valentin: 5x .5 day/week
-	* Robert: 3x .5 day/week
-	* Koen: 4x .8 day/week + 1x .5 day/week
-	* Ronny: 4x .2 day/week
-	* Kevin: 5x .5day/week
+* Nicolas: about 4.5 days/ week
+* Valentin: 5x .5 day/week
+* Robert: 3x .5 day/week
+* Koen: 4x .8 day/week + 1x .5 day/week
+* Ronny: 4x .2 day/week
+* Kevin: 5x .5day/week
+
+# Working session: Architecture discussion
+
+Attendees: Robert, Valentin, Koen, Kevin
+
+- Robert: NixOps should handle backup creation and restore, since it knows all the details for that
+  - There will be an interface to plug Nix expressions with scripts that can access all the resources
+  - Once should be able to build domain-specific applications around that
+  - Valentin: Backups seem to be morally equivalent to deployments "to a file"
+- Koen walked us through myprotagio.nl
+  - Kevin will share source code with Valentin
+  - It's a role-based-permission and billing UI wrapping PowerDNS, Postfix Admin, and InvoiceNinja
+    - Written in Laravel and Tailwind
+  - To build a UI for deployment we'd primarily need a REST API to a database
+    - Primary work would be to do the architecture and design
+  - Valentin: Maybe we could add just the APIs for the deployment workflows from a completely new service, and connect the front-end to that
+    - Won't have to touch the PHP then
+	- But for the full integration to work one will have to understand the whole system anyway
+	  - At that point one may as well keep maintaining it or rewrite it
+      - Koen: The existing thing needs work regardless, and would like to move away from PHP to Python anyway