[SAC] Indictrans Team
Cameron Shorter
cameron.shorter at gmail.com
Fri Oct 27 15:34:58 EDT 2006
Who is responsible for tasking and managing the Indictrans team?
I assume that one person is responsible for spending the budget and
being accountable for how the budget is spent?
Robert Bray wrote:
> Frank,
>
> This sounds great. Our contractor is primarily a sys admin, so content
> and app development is not his thing. If the guys from Indictrans can
> migrate content from the OSGeo,org site to Drupal, create the Drupal
> style templates, and focus on the Membership Application development etc
> for the main site that would be an excellent complement to the skills we
> will be bringing to the table through our contract.
>
> Bob
>
>
> Frank Warmerdam wrote:
>
>> Swapnil Hajare wrote:
>>
>>> Hello all,
>>> I am Swapnil Hajare from Indictrans (www.indictrans.in
>>> <http://www.indictrans.in>). I, along with 2 more fellows from
>>> Indictrans (Kanhaiya and Gupteshwar), will be working on various
>>> activities of OSGeo with help of you all. This will include website
>>> development, maintenance, helping sysadmins as well as some other
>>> general Opensource GIS tasks such as maintenance of GDAL/OGR and
>>> similar tools. Frank Warmerdam had written a mail to the list about
>>> this few days ago. We could not start working immedietly because of
>>> long Diwali vacation here. Now we are back and ready to work.
>>> As a satrting point, me and others have subscribed to community
>>> portal of OSeo and sac, webcommitee MLs. Our skillset include php,
>>> drupal, use of free/opensource tools such as UMN mapserver,
>>> postgis, GRASS, chameleon, kamap etc.
>>> We hope to contribute well and in the process also learn lot of new
>>> things from you all in future.
>>
>>
>> Swapnil,
>>
>> I've taken the liberty of adding a more meaningful subject line.
>>
>> Over the last week we have had some refinement of the transition plans.
>> Autodesk is looking to contract a system administrator for 3 months to
>> do the
>> bulk of the transition work, and Bob Bray at Autodesk has agreed to
>> act as
>> project lead on the transition.
>>
>> The contract sys admin will likely be taking care of the OpenLDAP setup
>> rather than Howard having to do it. So we will need to consult
>> actively with
>> Bob and the system administrator before we can deploy the Membership
>> Application and other permissions management stuff I spoke about earlier.
>>
>> I do think it still makes a lot of sense to go ahead with a preliminary
>> design. We are still planning to use Drupal for the portal, and I assume
>> it will be an evolved form of the current instance. So arranging
>> access to
>> that with Tyler would still be good.
>>
>> Bob - please consider the Indictrans team a resource, especially for
>> technical
>> Drupal work. On the conference call there was also some discussion of
>> having
>> the contract system administrator spend some time educating us on how the
>> new system works. I hope this will include the Indictrans team who I
>> hope
>> will be an ongoing resource for administering OSGeo infrastructure.
>>
>> Best regards,
>
>
>
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