[OSGeo Oceania] OSGeo infrastructure - call for support

[Martin Tomko]

I did reach to he (one) NCRIS facility in my orbit. Will report.
Martin
From: Adam Steer <adam.d.steer at gmail.com>
Date: Saturday, 3 May 2025 at 3:34 pm
To: Martin Tomko <tomkom at unimelb.edu.au>
Cc: Simon Nitz <Simon.Nitz at whanganui.govt.nz>, OSgeo - Oceania <Oceania at lists.osgeo.org>
Subject: Re: [OSGeo Oceania] OSGeo infrastructure - call for support

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<mailto: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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