SAC Meeting 2017-10-26

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

 * Refresh list of "primary administrators"

Topics carried over from where we left off at last meeting


 * New Website status report see Discussion for status details
 * Where to put the source code deliverable (Wordpress theme)? Git on Gitlab Public or OSGeo Git Public or Private.
 * Status of VM migration.
 * GIT services status report
 * Steps needed to upgrade Gogs to Gitea (drone upgrade to 0.8)
 * Steps needed to migrate experimental GitLab to reasonable/proper host
 * Available machines and their load (osgeo4 retirement plan)
 * Infrastructure_Transition_Plan_2010 and SAC_Service_Status
 * Osgeo6
 * SAC:Backups
 * New sysadmin contract - Martin Spott said his company would be interested
 * 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
 * Committee Guidelines - The board wants to know how we officially make decisions. We've never formalized this.
 * Road ahead?