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

[sbarnes]

+1 (Sorry Daniel, the original email was some how caught in my spam  
filter)

On 13-Oct-09, at 8:35 AM, Daniel Morissette wrote:

> 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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