[SAC] Re: Motion: Add Alan Boudreault as SAC member and Primary Admin

[Daniel Morissette]

Um... only Frank and Arnulf voted, while their voice is important to me, 
I'm a bit uncomfortable with the silence of the rest of the committee. 
Should it be interpreted as "don't care", or "we don't need another 
primary admin but won't necessarily -1 it", or "it was a long weekend 
and the email got unnoticed"?

Or is the hesitation related to ticket #490 which I am also trying to 
push? If that's the case then please speak up... SAC has in the past 
accepted to host projects that are friendly to OSGeo as long as a 
primary admin was willing to support it... if we want this practice to 
change then let's state it openly, but not just ignore requests. (I am 
perfectly happy hosting and promoting our projects at Maptools.org, but 
feel that doing it at OSGeo is a win-win for the projects and for OSGeo 
itself... I'm not begging for anything, just trying to do what's best 
for OSGeo.)

I'll wait a few more hours before withdrawing my motion, just in case I 
had misinterpreted the lack of responses...

Daniel


Daniel Morissette wrote:
> I would like to motion that we add Alan Boudreault as SAC member and 
> Primary Administrator 
> (http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/SAC:Primary_Administrators)
> 
> Alan manages our servers at Mapgears, including the Maptools.org server 
> and services, so he is already quite familiar with Linux and the kind of 
> environment/tools in which we operate. Frank offered to mentor him and 
> get him up to speed with SAC's server environment. Aside from server 
> admin work, he is also a MapServer committer and the current lead of the 
> UbuntuGIS project.
> 
> I guess I should disclose the fact that I have opened a ticket a few 
> days ago to request SVN, Trac and mailing lists for a new open source 
> project that we are about to release 
> (http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/490), and this ticket is blocked due 
> to the lack of a volunteer to setup the services, so having Alan on 
> board would obviously help move this forward, but I want to reassure 
> everyone that there is a honest intention behind this motion to help 
> share some of the load with the other primary admins in the long run (a 
> few hours here and there and not full time of course).
> 
> Daniel


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Daniel Morissette
http://www.mapgears.com/