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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">I did reach to he (one) NCRIS facility in my orbit. Will report.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Martin<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="color:black">From: </span></b><span style="color:black">Adam Steer <adam.d.steer@gmail.com><br>
<b>Date: </b>Saturday, 3 May 2025 at 3:34</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> </span><span style="color:black">pm<br>
<b>To: </b>Martin Tomko <tomkom@unimelb.edu.au><br>
<b>Cc: </b>Simon Nitz <Simon.Nitz@whanganui.govt.nz>, OSgeo - Oceania <Oceania@lists.osgeo.org><br>
<b>Subject: </b>Re: [OSGeo Oceania] OSGeo infrastructure - call for support<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin-left:36.0pt">hi Martin, all<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin-left:36.0pt">It is pretty safe to assume we're aware of political/budget considerations in Australia.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin-left:36.0pt">NCRIS etc have quite some ongoing funding (and machinery),to put toward objectives they *want* to have. The issue, as we saw with AARNet and OSM services, is that the vision isn't there. Nobody stepped up to say "oh hey this is
valuable to us" - that is all that AARNet needed. Not money, just evidence. People to speak up.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin-left:36.0pt">OSL was obviously a vision of some folks in research space - and right now they are after money. It makes sense to approach that issue first, then address infrastructure if needed - maybe an NCRIS facility could mirror OSL's work
- maybe they already do? Again, doing so depends on selling the vision much less than the cost.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin-left:36.0pt">I'm unfortunately not in a place to either sell the vision, or implement any part of a solution. I hope other people are; and can provide solutions instead of barriers.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin-left:36.0pt">Thanks,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin-left:36.0pt">Adam<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt">On Thu, 1 May 2025, 10:53 Martin Tomko, <<a href="mailto:tomkom@unimelb.edu.au" target="_blank">tomkom@unimelb.edu.au</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt">Just a note – not much better in Aus, where Science and Tech and Research deserved 0 note in the entire campaign form the major parties ( same as environment, really).</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt">ARC envelope will not change ( not applicable here anyway), NCRIS – who knows, so moving something here may not be for the long term…</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt">This seems to need more than hosting – it need devops/sysadmin pay ( at least 0.6FTE). Not sure where this would be found these days.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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