[SAC] Can you grab me on IRC today for some SAC questions?

[Alex Mandel]

Yes, running of Drupal, Wordpress or something similar is covered under
SAC budget, as we already cover this and no additional hardware is required.

Thanks,
Alex

On 01/05/2017 07:52 AM, Jeffrey Johnson wrote:
> Just to be clear, Marketing is asking for costs to actually run the
> new site (can be wordpress or just a newer drupal or whatever cms).
> Our remit is to hire a vendor to prepare the theme and setup the
> content types, templates etc.
> 
> Nicolas and I are planning to take the lead on managing the
> procurement. I can write to SAC asking for someone to participate in
> this separately.
> 
> 
> On Thu, Jan 5, 2017 at 7:43 AM, Alex Mandel <tech at wildintellect.com> wrote:
>> No, the overhaul of the website was not part of the SAC budget.
>> Our budget was:
>> Server replacement of osgeo3 ~$6,000
>> Maintenance & Service contracts ~$9,000
>>
>> That could include the setup of software necessary for new web
>> infrastructure, but the paying of an outside vendor to actually make the new
>> site I assumed would be in the Marketing (or whoever took over webcom).
>>
>> Yes, we will ask SAC for someone to sit on the EOI/RFQ. Who is in charge of
>> that so I can make the connection, or can you share an email with SAC asking
>> for the volunteer?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Alex
>>
>> On 01/05/2017 07:36 AM, Jody Garnett wrote:
>>>
>>> Budget for 2017 looks to be approved (have to remaining board members to
>>> vote).
>>>
>>> Since we did not hear from Alex I sent some details to the SAC email list:
>>>
>>> *Doubling back to this thread after recent budget discussion/questions.
>>> The
>>> board set a goal of redoing the website presence in 2017 (RFQ,content
>>> migration,etc...). It was unclear if the 15K request from SAC took this
>>> into account or not?*
>>>
>>> ** Marketing committee has volunteer to run an EOI/RFQ process for an
>>> external vendor to do the work (see
>>> https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Marketing_Meeting_2016-12-30
>>> <https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Marketing_Meeting_2016-12-30>).*
>>>
>>> ** Although we reached out to Alex Mandel it was unclear if the 15K
>>> request
>>> from SAC took this initiative into account?*
>>>
>>
>>> *Since it was unclear we have penciled in 8K for SAC as part of
>>> budget/fundraising target. The draft budget
>>> https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Budget_2017
>>> <https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Budget_2017> has the high level
>>> outline.*
>>>
>>> *Should fund raising target be met by end of January go/no-go the final
>>> budget for SAC would be 23k. It would be great if a member of SAC could be
>>> involved in the EOI / RFQ process (and present for the go/no-go
>>> decision).*
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Jody Garnett
>>>
>>> On 5 January 2017 at 07:23, Angelos Tzotsos <tzotsos at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Alex,
>>>>
>>>> There are some questions regarding the SAC budget for 2017.
>>>> Could we arrange some IRC meeting to discuss?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Angelos
>>>>
>>>> On 12/30/2016 07:03 PM, Jeffrey Johnson wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Thanks!
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Angelos Tzotsos, PhD
>>>> Remote Sensing Laboratory
>>>> National Technical University of Athens
>>>> http://users.ntua.gr/tzotsos
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Alex Mandel
>> http://wildintellect.com