SAC

= Mission = The OSGeo System Administration Committee (SAC) manages computer systems operated by OSGeo. Responsibilities include:


 * Develop published policies and procedures for managing systems, and system services.
 * Solicit input from stakeholders on requred system services, and to prioritize which to offer and when.
 * Assign appropriate security and other responsibilities to administrators and users for access to systems.
 * Ensure core OSGeo system services are well maintained, highly available and recoverable in case of system failure.
 * Recommend system expenditures to the Board.

= Members =


 * Norman Vine
 * Howard Butler (Chair)
 * John Graham
 * Frank Warmerdam
 * Arnulf Christl
 * Daniel Morissette
 * Shawn Barnes
 * Gary Sherman
 * Swapnil Hajare
 * Martin Spott
 * Wolf Bergenheim
 * Ari Jolma
 * Alan Boudreault

= Meetings =
 * 1/22/07 SAC:1_22_07_agenda SAC:1_25_07_minutes
 * 2/22/07 SAC:2_22_07_agenda SAC:2_22_07_minutes

= Communication =
 * Mailing list: Subscribe, Archives
 * IRC in #osgeo

= Task Tracking =

Infrastructure problems should be filed as trac ticket to SAC:
 * login and Submit Trac Ticket

Open issues:
 * Open SAC Issues
 * Old SAC TODO List (need to migrate any remaining issues to Trac).

= Procedures =
 * SAC:Primary Administrators
 * SAC:Admin and Troubleshooting
 * SAC:Backups
 * SAC:Create New User (telascience LDAP)
 * SAC:Setup LDAP Authentication (telascience blade)
 * SAC:Standard System Setup (telascience blade)
 * SAC:ISO Mirroring
 * SAC:Setup CiviCRM

= Documents =
 * Infrastructure Transition Plan 2006
 * SAC DNS Registry lists DNS entries within the osgeo.org domain.
 * 2007 Annual Report
 * Infrastructure Transition Plan 2010
 * OSL - Information on our use of system services at the OSU Open Source Labs (OSL).

= Services =


 * SAC Service Status indicates what services are setup, where and known issues (PEER1 and Telascience).
 * BuildBot Configuration
 * Download Server
 * Trac Instances
 * Community Mapbuilder Continuum Builds
 * Drupal Portal - transition notes for www project, talks about issues transitioning to new web site portal.
 * Migration Documentation - assorted services on www.osgeo.org
 * Subversion - Subversion services and configuration
 * SAC:Mailing Lists
 * SAC:LDAP
 * Moodle - educational server for training and courses
 * Postgrey - spam filter for postfix
 * Mediawiki Configuration (http://wiki.osgeo.org)

= Projects with SAC involved =
 * Geodata processing at telascience.org - by Geodata Packaging Working Group
 * The Software Stack page talks about the Reference Stack of software we would like to setup for demonstration and testing purposes.
 * Kids GIS Portal - hosted at telascience, a wee bit of systems help.

= Migration to new Infrastructure =
 * Drupal Upgrade Plan - Wolf's fall 2007 plan to upgrade Drupal to 5.3.
 * The Project Infrastructure Migration page talks about migration issues of the projects in incubation and provides hints to some services we should be trying to provide.
 * Migration Tasks and Milestones
 * Migration Documentation