[OSGeo Oceania] OSGeo infrastructure - call for support

[Martin Tomko]

Just a note – not much better in Aus, where Science and Tech and Research deserved 0 note in the entire campaign form the major parties ( same as environment, really).
ARC envelope will not change ( not applicable here anyway), NCRIS – who knows, so moving something here may not be for the long term…
This seems to need more than hosting – it need devops/sysadmin pay ( at least 0.6FTE). Not sure where this would be found these days.
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From: Oceania <oceania-bounces at lists.osgeo.org> on behalf of Simon Nitz via Oceania <oceania at lists.osgeo.org>
Date: Thursday, 1 May 2025 at 5:57 am
To: Adam Steer <adam.d.steer at gmail.com>, OSgeo - Oceania <Oceania at lists.osgeo.org>
Subject: [EXT] Re: [OSGeo Oceania] OSGeo infrastructure - call for support
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Maybe it’s a good time to think a little bit out of the square and stand up our own system using nextcloud if we can secure some infrastructure in AU
https://nextcloud.com/<https://nextcloud.com/>
Thoughts?
Simon


From: Oceania <oceania-bounces at lists.osgeo.org> On Behalf Of Adam Steer via Oceania
Sent: Thursday, 1 May 2025 7:48 AM
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Subject: [OSGeo Oceania] OSGeo infrastructure - call for support

Hi everyone

A lot of OSGeo's services rely on the Open Source Lab at Oregon State University - and it is currently facing an uncertain future.

See this post from Regina Obe (long timeOSGeo system admin):

https://mapstodon.space/@robe/114428365405157722<https://mapstodon.space/@robe/114428365405157722>

This post in the OSGeo system admin committee list:

https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/sac/2025-April/016732.html<https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/sac/2025-April/016732.html>

...and this article from OSL:

https://osuosl.org/blog/osl-future/<https://osuosl.org/blog/osl-future/>

What can we do in Oceania? I see two things: apply funding to the problem; and/or apply infrastructure (we do have aome very large computers that call themselves national infrastructure lurking about in Australia).

If you're in a position to influence in either (or some other way, noting that OSGeo and all the other projects are well aware of commercial cloud providers and the risks involved) - please get in contact directly with OSL by 14 May (see details in the OSL article).

Cheers,

Adam
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