SAC Meeting 2018-01-18

Go over status of SSL - FOSS4G2018
From last meeting:
 * Website code: https://github.com/foss4g2018/foss4g2018
 * The code for the payments is also very simple HTML - we'd be happy to host in a single point
 * 3rd party payment service: Pesapal
 * post-meeting. To be moved to webextra, with ssl in front
 * merge them and have the payment site be something like https:/2018.foss4g.org/registration
 * ragnvald: https://github.com/timlinux/foss4g2018
 * Ensure we have continuity within our payment systems



New Website status report
 It is live now on cloudvps. https://www.osgeo.org. It's still using PHP5 and MYSQL 5.5.58 Have a staging2 version https://staging2.www.osgeo.org that uses PHP7 and MariaDB 10.1 Alex was planning to get a cloud hosting plan from OSUOSL so we can resetup, need status of that.

References:
 * day after
 * release day
 * Open tickets

Sys Admin Contract

 * Missing Signature OSGeo
 * Some pressure is needed to speed up.



Migration off old hard-ware AND Virtualization, Containerization, or None
From last meeting

Migration
 * Alex: needs feedback on the questions about direction we want to go
 * Decide on virtualization method or container method I can narrow it down
 * Provide some mailing list time for modification suggestions, before a vote
 * Concerning virtualization method: Who's going to maintain that one ?
 * MartinSpott: I just don't want - again - get into a position to maintain KVM
 * strk: I've no experience with libvirt/ganeti/openstack
 * wildintellect: KVM itself is packaged
 * proposal: the one who decides in favour of a particular technique signs responsibility for maintaining it
 * what do we need to decide today ?
 * if the new hardware will be virtualization based or container based, or neither

Virtualization


 * We need to decide about Virtualization and Containerization plans.
 * OSGeo6 was made without either in part because updating 4 OS was a lot of work.
 * Hardware is somewhat dependent on the solution. Ganeti or Openstack expect lots of cheap machines (3+) to work well. Redundancy is across machines instead of within machine.
 * It should be noted in all virtualization cases we plan to use KVM with LVM based images - Ganeti/Openstack/Libvirt are a management layer on top.
 * Hardware Option 1-3 $3000-$7500, Hardware Option 4 $6300
 * It's hard to find a dual cpu or high core count in a smaller case. So the more expensive systems could be less if we opt to not fill the drive slots. However we do need space for the foss4g archive and the downloads. So maybe a mix of SSD and Spinning...
 * Option 4 based on a mix of SSD and Spinning disks for large and fast storage. Downloads can be handled by spinning SATA.
 * Hosting Option: OSUOSL - VM of our choosing just like other cloud services.
 * Hosting Option: Other

TODO discuss on list

 Report  Due to the website launching, the discussion on the list didn't start.

Motions status:

 * Motion to add Vicky Vergara to SAC team Motion passed.
 * Jody Garnett nominate to join SAC Motion passed.

GeoForAll DNS

 * 1) Jeff & Vicky:
 * 2) No progress

GitLab Status report

 * 1)  

Weblate service
Proposal to deploy a Weblate on osgeo (translate.osgeo.org). See initial proposal on https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/sac/2017-October/008804.html

Recently re-taken by QGIS: https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/qgis-developer/2018-January/051493.html

Others

 * 1) 

Full transcript
http://irclogs.geoapt.com/osgeo-sac/%23osgeo-sac.2018-01-18.log

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