System Administration Budget Plans

[Vicky Vergara]

Hi all,

Thoughts at the end.


On Wed, Nov 22, 2023 at 10:04 AM Regina Obe <lr at pcorp.us> wrote:

> So 2024 is around the corner and we need to come up with a budget.
>
> Our 2023 budget looked like this
>
> https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/SAC:Budget#2023
>
> I think most can stay the same.
> Two things I'd like to see upped are:
>
> 1) Hosting (in form of donation) for OSUOSL should go up 500 to $6500 to
> account for inflation and  because they have been great and it's still way
> way cheaper than same deal we can get from any other hoster.
> 2) Sysadmin contract.  I'd like to up that 6 contracts and increase the
> amount $7000 per contract (again inflation) (still recommend 50 hrs)
>
> The reason is well for me I always run out of funds at the end, as I have
> already pretty much exhausted my existing contract.
> We are also doing major cleanup with our ansible setup to make our infra
> more straightforward and easier to manage in the future.
>

I've been doing this, and have more than 20 hours on this task.


>
>
Also next year there will be some major work going on with osgeo6 and mail
> servers.  OSGeo6 (aka our list serve / mail server) needs an upgrade and
> possibly a complete redo.  People also want to have real mailboxes to send
> osgeo corporate mail and receive, which adds quite a bit of overhead.
> There is also great demand from the community to integrate discourse for
> better communication with the public.
>
> We might want to separate that out, but not sure.  Part of me feels it
> should just be part of a contract and that alone can easily take up 150
> hrs.
>

I wonder if there could be some kind of specialized contract. For example:
MAIL contract hours available 150 hrs.
- Mail, lists, mailbox servers upgrade/installation
- Independent of a person - OSGeo contract relationship.
- Teams of members can participate together.
If a person has a contract, and is putting hours to the MAIL, it goes to
those hours available.
At the end of all the work the hours are summarized by person and payment
done accordingly.


>
> Thoughts anyone?
>
> Thanks,
> Regina
>
>
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