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
• Markus Neteler
• Alex Mandel

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