[Board] osgeo mail address

[Eli Adam]

On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 11:35 AM, Massimiliano Cannata
<massimiliano.cannata at supsi.ch> wrote:
> That's all correct.
> But information is not easy to find and not all osgeo members are developers
> and are used with tickets.

I know that the information is not always that apparent.  That is why
locally in PDX-OSGeo and through email I try to let as many people
know as possible.  Hopefully these people learn and teach others.

As OSGeo expands beyond mostly developers into education, conferences,
users, etc, the processes should maybe be revised or greater efforts
to included everyone in the processes.

> Then is there an official procedure to pass or not a request? What are the
> evaluatio crita if any?

Not that I know of.  I think it is mostly the OSGeo do-ocracy way;
once a ticket is entered, if some SAC member thinks it is a reasonable
request, has time, access, skills, and desire to do it, then they do
it and close the ticket.  SAC operates as other OSGeo committees so I
guess if really needed, SAC would meet and vote but from what I've
seen, that is rarely needed.  I certainly don't see why that would be
needed for what appears to be a routine reasonable email alias
request.

Here are some email list creation guidelines which may be able to be
extrapolated to general SAC guidelines.
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/SAC:Mailing_Lists#Requesting_a_new_list

>
> My question is just to make it more clear and transparent to everybody.

Yes, hopefully many people will learn from this email exchange and
spread it to others.  Right now the default method is to contact Jeff
and have Jeff take care of everything.  That method works but isn't
really fair to Jeff or anyone who wants to request something.

Cheers, Eli

>
> Thanks
>
> Maxi
>
> Il 21/Ago/2015 19:10, "Eli Adam" <eadam at co.lincoln.or.us> ha scritto:
>>
>> Hi Maria,
>>
>> On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 8:51 AM, Maria Antonia Brovelli
>> <maria.brovelli at polimi.it> wrote:
>> >
>> > Many thanks, Jeff.
>> > I'll try to do that, even if I don't understand what I have to do.
>> > Sorry but this sentence is not clear to me:
>> >
>> > Please do file this request directly, login and file a new ticket with
>> > this request (https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/).
>>
>> Your request is to have SAC (System Administration Committee) do
>> something (make an email alias).  The way you ask SAC to do something
>> is through a ticket with the component set to Systems Admin.  They
>> have directions and links here,
>> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/SAC#Task_Tracking
>>
>> Ideally many OSGeo members can learn the inter workings of the
>> organization so that it is accessible to all.  Jeff as President and
>> the Board really have nothing to do with this request.
>>
>> Hope that helps, Eli
>>
>>
>> >
>> > I'll ask also Suchith if he thinks that also other chairs could be
>> > interested.
>> >
>> > Best.
>> > Maria
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>> > ________________________________________
>> > Da: board-bounces at lists.osgeo.org <board-bounces at lists.osgeo.org> per
>> > conto di Jeff McKenna <jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com>
>> > Inviato: venerdì 21 agosto 2015 17.39
>> > A: board at lists.osgeo.org
>> > Oggetto: Re: [Board] osgeo mail address
>> >
>> > Hi Maria,
>> >
>> > You e-mailed me yesterday asking this, I was about to respond directly
>> > to you (obviously my response time was not fast enough for you).
>> >
>> > Please do file this request directly, login and file a new ticket with
>> > this request (https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/).
>> >
>> > You might also speak with Suchith about this, and instead of just one
>> > GeoForAll alias, you might want aliases for each region.  Then you or
>> > Suchith can file one ticket there with all of the aliases.  Then the
>> > Systems committee tackles your ticket.
>> >
>> > Sorry for my apparent slow response.
>> >
>> > -jeff
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > On 2015-08-21 11:47 AM, Maria Antonia Brovelli wrote:
>> >> Dear All
>> >> together with Peter Mooney we are wondering if it is possible to have a
>> >> shared (between Peter and I) osgeo email address as Eu GeoForAll chairs,
>> >> something like: eu.gfa.chair at osgeo.org.
>> >>
>> >> It will be easier to work just with one address instead of using our
>> >> two "private" ones.
>> >> Moreover the same address could be used by next chairs (once we are no
>> >> more chairs)
>> >>
>> >> Is it possible and whom we have to contact?
>> >>
>> >> Many thanks.
>> >>
>> >> See you in Seoul!
>> >>
>> >> Maria
>> >>
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