[OSGeo-Board] Some whining from the outside

[Frank Warmerdam]

Markus Neteler wrote:
>>>  - What is the status of doing a binary stack?  Again, this was 
>>> discussed
>>>  at the F2F but I'm not sure what action has been taken.
> 
> I am also clueless about the infrastructure status, asked around but still
> have no clear idea:
> What's the timeline to have *access* to the infrastructure?
> Some months ago I offered to generate geodata as part of my
> GeodataCom involvement, so far I cannot start. I am talking about
> number crunching here. My tools and data are ready, I "just" need
> the machines to launch it.
> 
> Same thing for the EduCom Books Wiki: asked some weeks ago,
> still not available. It would be helpful to get regular updates from SAC.

Markus,

Briefly the status is that several servers are now available at
Telascience and are setup with base operating system software, and
using the LDAP authentication for users.

But we haven't had much progress on installing specific software
packages (I may be a bit behind on this).  The geodata folks have
a server and they have been doing some work on it.  I think there
is a problem getting media wiki to speak to LDAP so that is stalled
though I have been away for a bit.

Generally speaking SAC is not really operating in any sort of cohesive
manner.

Best regards,
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