SAC Meeting 2018-08

Where and When

• in IRC on Freenode, channel: osgeo-sac Thursday Aug 16th 2018 20 UTC
  • Web IRC client: https://webchat.freenode.net/

Past this month

Thursday Aug 9th 2018 20 UTC

Agenda

Talk about hardware plans

• Our new hardware has landed, OSUOSL has already been instructioned to install Ubuntu 18.04
• Need to fill in Wiki page and get started doing something with it SAC_Service_Status#osgeo_7.
• We need to flesh out the setup details and start setting it up Osgeo7.

Notes: August 16

• no VPN access yet.
• Need to deploy our admins to keys to their matching users on various machines so at least the core people can stop using password based on login
• we install lxd I assume we will go with zfs for storage
  • https://lxd.readthedocs.io/en/stable-3.0/storage/ (storage backends)
  • seems like btrfs has more features
• are we going to have external network access?
• Maybe want at least 3-4 database containers, one for system/internal databases, one for user databases, one for web content, and another for dev.
• base system should be authentication for ssh, lxd and backup client
• storage driver usable inside a container means we can't use zfs commands inside the containers directly
• the snapshot thingy sounds kinda important to me at lease for development stuff, no as important for stable stuff I guess
• We should jot down these ideas on osgeo7 though before we forget

Notes: August 9

• Looks like wildintellect working on getting his VPN account setup
• requests/added to VPN access from strk, robe2, TemptorSent, Martin, jef
• TemptorSent did have some good notes and links now added to the osgeo7 page on how to do the setup
• VPN access is only needed to bootstrap using the IPMI.
• are we asking OSUOSL to do the basic install or just stick a thumb drive in and we do it?
• possible steps:
  • figure out the correct installer,
  • work out where to put the /boot with grub
  • ask OSUOSL to put in a flash drive with what we need
  • /boot can be any FS type technically, especially if it's not on the spinning rust
• other option
  • wouldn't the correct one just be this - http://releases.ubuntu.com/18.04/ubuntu-18.04.1-live-server-amd64.iso
  • not use desktop image would liable to install junk like a desktop
• there we can do a normal install to the SSD, then copy the install over to ZFS formatted drives

Nextcloud,

• Board's request for sync+share storage replacement of Dropbox
  • TODO: robe - I really want to speed this up before handing to board to test after I will send a note to OSGEO board. Note we'll eventually move this to OSGeo7 once OSGeo7 server is set up

Notes august 16

• Nextcloud container is currently being upgraded

Notes August 9

• https://nextcloud.osgeo.org
• Has anyone done any playing with nextcloud to see what we might need to tweak?
• have to announce to the board, but really wanted to improve the speed cause it's really slow
• coordinate with board to migrate their content from dropbox to nextcloud

Wiki LDAP integration

• (how do we move forward) wrt to approaches what are we willing to put up with 165
  • TODO: Martin Spott and TemptorSent explore logistics of setting up a sandbox we can test.

Notes august 16

• Ideas
  • experiment with changing the schema to support keys
  • could start with a scratch one with a couple of users I guess
  • A selective export
  • could be the first thing we do in osgeo7 container (that's at least on same local network)

Notes august 9

• Wiki - I haven't seen the database still
• Martin had created a backup

OSGeo Website topics

- anything outstanding SAC needs to be involved in?

• https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/2189#ticket
• https://git.osgeo.org/gitea/osgeo/www_osgeo/pulls/2

• Notes from August 9:
  • TODO (sponsors): close the related issues with Jive.
    • Never saw Jive on the IRC
• Gravatar is now used in following pages: members page, board page
  • TODO: on the members list page, https://www.osgeo.org/community/members/ I could not find where is the code that generates the list

Attendance

august 9

• robe2
• markusN
• TemptorSent
• jef
• wildintellect
• cvvergara
• jody

August 16

• robe2
• cvvergara
• TemptorSent
• wildintellect

Transcript

http://irclogs.geoapt.com/osgeo-sac/%23osgeo-sac.2018-08-09.log

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