[OSGeo Oceania] OSGeo infrastructure - call for support

[Adam Steer]

hi Martin, all

It is pretty safe to assume we're aware of political/budget considerations
in Australia.

NCRIS etc have quite some ongoing funding (and machinery),to put toward
objectives they *want* to have. The issue, as we saw with AARNet and OSM
services, is that the vision isn't there. Nobody stepped up to say "oh hey
this is valuable to us" - that is all that AARNet needed. Not money, just
evidence. People to speak up.

OSL was obviously a vision of some folks in research space - and right now
they are after money. It makes sense to approach that issue first, then
address infrastructure if needed - maybe an NCRIS facility could mirror
OSL's work - maybe they already do? Again, doing so depends on selling the
vision much less than the cost.

I'm unfortunately not in a place to either sell the vision, or implement
any part of a solution. I hope other people are; and can provide solutions
instead of barriers.

Thanks,

Adam

On Thu, 1 May 2025, 10:53 Martin Tomko, <tomkom at unimelb.edu.au> wrote:

> 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.
>
> M>
>
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