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

[Alex M]

Motion is passed +4 votes, no objections.

I'll contact the Board to arrange the contract.

Thanks,
Alex

On 11/09/2017 01:47 PM, Alex M wrote:
> 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
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