[Board] osgeo mail address

Fri Aug 21 13:04:13 PDT 2015

Eli
I fully agree and thank you for the answers and details.

Maxi
Il 21/Ago/2015 21:05, "Eli Adam" <eadam at co.lincoln.or.us> ha scritto:

> 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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