SAC

The OSGeo System Administration Committee (SAC) manages all non-CollabNet 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 (Chair)
• Howard Butler
• John Graham
• Frank Warmerdam
• Arnulf Christl
• Daniel Morissette

Policy Documents

• SAC:Security Groups Policy (approved)

Procedures

• SAC:Admin and Troubleshooting
• SAC:Create New User
• SAC:Setup LDAP Authentication
• SAC:Standard System Setup
• SAC:ISO Mirroring

Resources

Documents

• Motion forming SAC
• Infrastructure Transition Plan

Setup

• SAC TODO List
• SAC Service Status indicates what services are setup, where and known issues.
• SAC DNS Registry lists DNS entries within the osgeo.org domain.
• BuildBot Configuration
• Proposed LDAP Layout

Portal and Communication

• Drupal Portal - transition notes for www project, talks about issues transitioning to new web site portal.
• Mailing list: Subscribe and Archive

Projects with SAC involved

• Geodata processing at telascience.org - by Geodata Packaging Working Group
• The Infrastructure Working Group has some thoughts on services required from SAC and may provide additional input in the future.
• The Software Stack page talks about the Reference Stack of software we would like to setup for demonstration and testing purposes.
• 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.
• Teleconferencing http://openwengo.org/