[Board] maintenance after the changeover

[Tyler Mitchell]

No, I do not have any more info. on this.  However, after working with a fairly dispursed group during the migration, I'm hopeful we can recruit and/or mentor more volunteers for WebCom in the meantime.  Having Shawn on for 2007 will help give us time to set up a good network of other volunteers or, where needed, paid staffers.

Tyler

-----Original Message-----

From: Dave McIlhagga <dmcilhagga at dmsolutions.ca>
Sent: Mon, 01 Jan 2007 21:16:26 -0500
To: Jo Walsh <jo at frot.org>
CC: board at lists.osgeo.org
Received:  Mon, 01 Jan 2007 21:16:30 -0500
Subject: Re: [Board] maintenance after the changeover

Hi Jo,

Shawn is available full-time for the next month to wrap-up the migration 
to the new infrastructure, after which he will have 10% of his time 
dedicated to maintaining the infrastructure through the end of 2007.

Concurrently, my understanding was that there would be other resources 
coming online over the next year in Europe and Asia so we can get round 
the clock system administration services available for managing the 
infrastructure. I'm not sure if this actually is in place or not though.

Tyler - do you have any more information?

Dave


Jo Walsh wrote:
> dear all,
> 
> I think my last mail about this got lost in transition...
> 
> I wanted to ask about our ongoing support arrangements for the website
> and for general online services. I'm thinking of administrivia like
> setting up of email aliases, adding accounts and permissions to
> things, engagement sysadmin basically. 
> 
> Is Shawn going to have time dedicated to the maintenance phase, or was
> he only brought on for the build phase? 
> 
> It doesn't make all that much sense that this should be taking up
> Tyler's time, and if we fall into a pattern where Tyler is getting a
> lot of administrivia requests by default, that's suboptimal - some
> kind of abstraction would be of benefit. 
> 
> I wanted to raise this here with the board rather than directly on the
> SAC list where the People Who Care are gathered, because i am not sure
> what kind of paid resources OSGeo will have available, to what extent
> we can, or want to, get by with volunteer sysadmin, and it would be
> great to get generate as much clarity as possible before asking a lot
> of people what they might be prepared to do.
> 
> I hope this makes sense,
> 
> 
> jo
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