System Administration Budget Plans

[Regina Obe]

Jody,

 

How many design updates did you have in mind or is marketing committee still planning that out?

 

I’m thinking ideally it would be great if someone in the SAC team would be contracted for that work so that we know exactly what’s been done and how to improve on it in the future.

 

Thanks,

Regina

 

From: Jody Garnett <jody.garnett at gmail.com> 
Sent: Sunday, December 3, 2023 10:34 PM
To: Vicky Vergara <vicky at erosion.dev>
Cc: Regina Obe <lr at pcorp.us>; System Administration Committee Discussion/OSGeo <sac at lists.osgeo.org>
Subject: Re: System Administration Budget Plans

 

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 <mailto: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 <mailto: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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