<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">Hi Gary and all, </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">From my perspective, Jo and I have a good start on building the 'alternative' you were saying someone should just go and build. This is a prototype, so far only focused on the web interface and some community tools. The other needs are on our list but should really be done on "the" OSGeo server and not this prototype. That is, we don't want to start porting SVN repositories, project mailing lists, etc. onto this temp. server set up we have.</SPAN></FONT></DIV><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></P><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">In my opinion, the next step is getting some cash to devote to sysadmin/support and server infrastructure/hardware. This whole project of getting a transition plan together has landed in Jo and my's laps, which I'm fine with, but we are both ultimately still working off the side of our desks. I hope you are still considering putting an ED in place, because moving these kinds of projects along could easily be managed by the ED so board isn't micro-managing the affair and feeling helpless. I'm not sure volunteers will be able to take it all the way, especially on the sysadmin side where we need some guaranteed quality of service.</SPAN></FONT></DIV><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></P><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">I think you do not want to leave this until October. Having as much of this started as possible for the FOSS4G conference is a good target, at least for the web/community UI side of things. There will be increased momentum around OSGeo by then, and at EuroOSCON - I'd hate to still have a bad web site when we are promoting at those events.</SPAN></FONT></DIV><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></P><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">Tyler</SPAN></FONT></DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On 11-Aug-06, at 12:05 PM, Gary Lang wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"> <P dir="LTR"><SPAN lang="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN lang="en-us"><FONT size="2" face="Arial">Board Members,</FONT></SPAN></P><P dir="LTR"><SPAN lang="en-us"><FONT size="2" face="Arial">Putting on my MapGuide hat here, where are we with the consideration of a new infrastructure for OSGeo? If it moves off of CN, we will need a new one. If there isn</FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN lang="en-us"><FONT size="2" face="Arial">’</FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN lang="en-us"><FONT size="2" face="Arial">t a new one in the offing and no firm schedule for creating one, we</FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN lang="en-us"><FONT size="2" face="Arial">’</FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN lang="en-us"><FONT size="2" face="Arial">ll have to</FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN lang="en-us"> <FONT size="2" face="Arial">build</FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN lang="en-us"><FONT size="2" face="Arial"> one ourselves, and by my reckoning, we will have to start in October.</FONT></SPAN></P><P dir="LTR"><SPAN lang="en-us"><FONT size="2" face="Arial">Gary</FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN lang="en-us"></SPAN></P> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>