SAC Meeting 2017-10-26

= Agenda =

Please list the meeting topics, and link to relevant SAC tickets when possible. Meeting will be for assigning tasks, updating status, and voting. Majority of discussions should happen on the mailing list and IRC in before and after meetings. Estimated 30-60 minutes.

Time and Date: UTC: Thursday, October 26, 2017 at 7:00 pm

Agenda
Topics carried over from where we left off at last meeting


 * New Website status report -- we have account set up on https://www.cloudvps.com/ and the 4GB Debian 8 ordered, but waiting for cloudvps folks to approve Michael Smith's identity before they setup the VPS for us. Hopefully by meeting time, we will have had GetInteractive to load the wordpress backup on this server and be in planning mode for LDAP integration and production server setup on OSGEO servers.
 * GIT services status report
 * Steps needed to upgrade Gogs to Gitea
 * Available machines and their load
 * Road ahead
 * New sysadmin contract
 * Next meeting proposed for same time, NOV 9th,2017
 * Setting aside money for Cloud Servers, How much can we afford, what providers.
 * I think we should consider a couple since each has strengths (e.g. some allow stop start, many allow create/drop instead of buying a specific server, some provide lots of bandwidth and automated backups but may have smaller size etc, many offer lots of OS, some are limited to just one etc) and maybe not put all our money in one
 * Digital Ocean (Droplet), Linode, Amazon EC, SoftLayer, Atlantic.net and other smaller players