System Administration Budget Plans

[Jody Garnett]

If I can get some design updates for the website via the marketting
committee; there should also be some Wordpress work in 2024.

Jody

On Sat, Dec 2, 2023 at 6:54 AM Vicky Vergara <vicky at erosion.dev> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Thoughts at the end.
>
>
> On Wed, Nov 22, 2023 at 10:04 AM Regina Obe <lr at pcorp.us> wrote:
>
>> So 2024 is around the corner and we need to come up with a budget.
>>
>> Our 2023 budget looked like this
>>
>> https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/SAC:Budget#2023
>>
>> I think most can stay the same.
>> Two things I'd like to see upped are:
>>
>> 1) Hosting (in form of donation) for OSUOSL should go up 500 to $6500 to
>> account for inflation and  because they have been great and it's still way
>> way cheaper than same deal we can get from any other hoster.
>> 2) Sysadmin contract.  I'd like to up that 6 contracts and increase the
>> amount $7000 per contract (again inflation) (still recommend 50 hrs)
>>
>> The reason is well for me I always run out of funds at the end, as I have
>> already pretty much exhausted my existing contract.
>> We are also doing major cleanup with our ansible setup to make our infra
>> more straightforward and easier to manage in the future.
>>
>
> I've been doing this, and have more than 20 hours on this task.
>
>
>>
>>
> Also next year there will be some major work going on with osgeo6 and mail
>> servers.  OSGeo6 (aka our list serve / mail server) needs an upgrade and
>> possibly a complete redo.  People also want to have real mailboxes to send
>> osgeo corporate mail and receive, which adds quite a bit of overhead.
>> There is also great demand from the community to integrate discourse for
>> better communication with the public.
>>
>> We might want to separate that out, but not sure.  Part of me feels it
>> should just be part of a contract and that alone can easily take up 150
>> hrs.
>>
>
> I wonder if there could be some kind of specialized contract. For example:
> MAIL contract hours available 150 hrs.
> - Mail, lists, mailbox servers upgrade/installation
> - Independent of a person - OSGeo contract relationship.
> - Teams of members can participate together.
> If a person has a contract, and is putting hours to the MAIL, it goes to
> those hours available.
> At the end of all the work the hours are summarized by person and payment
> done accordingly.
>
>
>>
>> Thoughts anyone?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Regina
>>
>>
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