SAC Meeting 2017-10-12

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 12, 2017 at 7:00 pm

Current

• Quick intro of who does what currently: [Done it's outlined on wiki]
• New OSGeo Website: (Was decided to move forward with OSGeo getting a VPS account and SAC taking ownership of it) see New Website next steps
• LDAP status report
• 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, OCT 26,2017
• 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