[SAC] [MOTION] Grant sysadmin contract to Martin Spott

[Alex M]

As noted in the meeting, we have the budget, so please vote on this
motion by the end of Friday this week.

Thanks,
Alex

On 11/09/2017 01:34 PM, Vicky Vergara wrote:
> +1
> 
> On Thu, Nov 9, 2017 at 3:33 PM, Regina Obe <lr at pcorp.us> wrote:
> 
>> As discussed in meeting we have enough budget for this.
>>
>> +1 from me to move forward.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Sac [mailto:sac-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Alex M
>> Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2017 1:19 PM
>> To: System Administration Committee Discussion/OSGeo <sac at lists.osgeo.org>
>> Subject: Re: [SAC] [MOTION] Grant sysadmin contract to Martin Spott
>>
>> I'd like to put this vote on hold for a day or two until I can get a
>> report from the Treasurer making sure we actually have the amount for this
>> within our current budget. Hopefully I'll have those numbers before the
>> meeting tomorrow.
>>
>> More responses below...inline.
>>
>> On 11/07/2017 10:59 AM, Sandro Santilli wrote:
>>> On Tue, Nov 07, 2017 at 09:05:16AM -0800, Alex M wrote:
>>>> I'm in favor of the proposal. However we only have 11 tickets marked
>>>> higher than "normal", (not all are actually that hard of tasks). So I
>>>> think we need to clarify the main topics of interest, SSL and LDAP
>>>> seem to be 2 of the bigs things, followed by system configuration
>>>> issues like download disk space, retiring osgeo4, containers or
>>>> virtualization on osgeo6.
>>>
>>> My idea is we'd all help setting those priorities in tickets, Martin
>>> included (he would file tickets for proposals).
>>> For sure SSL is a fundamental topic (it's preventing people from using
>>> the services).
>>>
>>
>> Sounds like an agenda/task item for the meeting is to get more people to
>> go through tickets, and see if we can resolve and correctly mark priority.
>>
>>>> We should also clarify if we want the hours to go as fast as possible
>>>> or have some expectation of a time window under which it will be
>>>> done.
>>>
>>> I would expect between 1 and 2 months of elapsed time to complete the
>>> hours.
>>>
>>
>> Ok, I'd like the contract to be flexible so I suggest we put a deadline of
>> spending the hours within 2 months. Looks like your previous contract only
>> had it at 1 month.
>>
>>>> Also should time spent on normal management and monitoring be
>>>> excluded, system updates, backups etc?
>>>
>>> I don't think so, why should them ? If any volunteer is already doing
>>> this it can be announced on this list so the task is taken off
>>> Martin's plate.
>>>
>>
>> I was thinking of tasks Martin currently does under volunteered hours.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Alex
>>
>>> --strk;
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Alex
>>>>
>>>> On 11/07/2017 01:37 AM, Sandro Santilli wrote:
>>>>> This is an official motion to grant a contract for 50 hours of
>>>>> sysadmin work on OSGeo machines to Martin Spott (via his employer)
>>>>> for a total of 5000 EUR.
>>>>>
>>>>> The work will consist in going through trac tickets in priority
>>>>> order and close as many as possible while documenting proceedings
>>>>> and suggesting more actions as they are found useful.
>>>>>
>>>>> Will start with my +1
>>>>>
>>>>> --strk;
>>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, Nov 06, 2017 at 11:39:06PM +0100, Martin Spott wrote:
>>>>>> On Mon, Nov 06, 2017 at 09:10:57AM +1300, Sandro Santilli wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Martin: do you confirm you're up for the job ?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Yes, I confirm my employer is interested in contracting with OSGeo
>>>>>> to sell
>>>>>> 50 hours of my work time to adress OSGeo SAC issues, at an hourly
>>>>>> rate of
>>>>>> 100 EUR