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 required 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
Active
- Alex Mandel Chair (General)
- Martin Spott (Backups, everything else)
- Markus Neteler (GRASS, fail2ban)
- Frank Warmerdam (Downloads, Mailing Lists)
- Norman Vine (IRC)
- Daniel Morissette
- Eli Adam
- Jorge Sanz (Nabble, Mailing Lists, PlanetOSGeo)
- Mateusz Loskot (Nabble, PlanetOSGeo)
- Paolo Corti (PlanetOSGeo)
- Richard Duivenvoorde (QGIS)
- Jürgen Fischer (QGIS, OSGeo4w)
- Gary Sherman (IRC Bots)
- Hamish Bowman (OSGeo Live)
InActive
- Chris Schmidt (OAM, Vmap0, Sr.org)
- Howard Butler
- John Graham
- Shawn Barnes
- Swapnil Hajare
- Wolf Bergenheim
- Ari Jolma
- Alan Boudreault
- Jorge Rocha
Meetings
- June 2010 SAC OSL Transition Meeting
- 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 and #telascience on irc.freenode.net (quick access: http://webchat.freenode.net/)
Task Tracking
Infrastructure problems should be filed as trac ticket to SAC:
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:Standard System Setup
- SAC:ISO Mirroring
- SAC:Setup CiviCRM
Documents
- Infrastructure Transition Plan 2010
- SAC DNS Registry lists DNS entries within the osgeo.org domain.
- 2007 Annual Report
- 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.
- 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
Old migration documents for historical review.
- Migration Documentation - assorted services on www.osgeo.org
- 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
- Infrastructure Transition Plan 2006