System Administration Budget Plans

[Regina Obe]

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.

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.

Thoughts anyone?

Thanks,
Regina