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 required 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 =

(SAC:Primary Administrators)

A LDAP group holds the authoritative list of current SAC administrators (need an [http://www.osgeo.org/osgeo_userid OSGeo account to read).

Active

 * Alex Mandel Chair (General)
 * Martin Spott (Backups, everything else)
 * Markus Neteler (GRASS CMS + Wiki, fail2ban, various)
 * Frank Warmerdam (Downloads, Mailing Lists)
 * Norman Vine (IRC)
 * Daniel Morissette
 * Eli Adam
 * Jorge Sanz (Nabble, Mailing Lists, PlanetOSGeo)
 * Mateusz Loskot (Nabble, PlanetOSGeo)
 * Paolo Corti (PlanetOSGeo)
 * Richard Duivenvoorde (QGIS)
 * Jürgen Fischer (QGIS, OSGeo4w)
 * Gary Sherman (IRC Bots)
 * Hamish Bowman (OSGeo Live)
 * Christian Willmes (Journal, Wiki)
 * Sandro Santilli (trac)

InActive

 * Chris Schmidt (OAM, Vmap0, Sr.org)
 * Howard Butler
 * John Graham
 * Shawn Barnes
 * Swapnil Hajare
 * Wolf Bergenheim
 * Ari Jolma
 * Alan Boudreault
 * Jorge Rocha

= Meetings =
 * June 2010 SAC OSL Transition Meeting
 * 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 and #telascience on irc.freenode.net (quick access: http://webchat.freenode.net/)

= 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:Standard System Setup
 * SAC:ISO Mirroring
 * SAC:Setup CiviCRM

= Documents =


 * Infrastructure Transition Plan 2010
 * SAC DNS Registry lists DNS entries within the osgeo.org domain.
 * 2007 Annual Report
 * 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.
 * 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 =


 * Infrastructure Transition Plan 2010
 * Infrastructure Transition Plan 2014

Old migration documents for historical review.

 * Migration Documentation - assorted services on www.osgeo.org
 * 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
 * Infrastructure Transition Plan 2006