[OSGeo Oceania] OSGeo infrastructure - call for support

[Jonah Sullivan]

Discussions with the National Computational Infrastructure (NCI) at
Australian National University are progressing with regard to hosting
OpenStreetMap Servers (which you can see a list of here:
https://hardware.openstreetmap.org/). AARNET hosted 2 servers for about 5
years until December 2024, mainly providing a local endpoint for changeset
management.

Hopefully these discussions end in action. There is goodwill from NCI,
especially since they're in the middle of a hardware refresh and they have
spare capacity using the old hardware.

Grant Slater (from the OSMF) is in direct communication with the NCI staff,
I'm just following along.


On Thu, 1 May 2025 at 05:48, Adam Steer via Oceania <oceania at lists.osgeo.org>
wrote:

> 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
>
> This post in the OSGeo system admin committee list:
>
> https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/sac/2025-April/016732.html
>
> ...and this article from OSL:
>
> 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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