Landon Blake wrote:
I was wondering if anyone could explain the nature of the relationship between TelaScience and the OSGeo. Are they simply working together where they have goals in common, or is there relationship more substantial than that?
Landon, Telascience has kindly donated servers, bandwidth and support services to OSGeo. I'm not aware of a lot of official documents about the relationship, it is mostly based on personal connections and the fact that goals of telascience and OSGeo in the geo-computing space have substantial overlap. We are very grateful to Telascience as an organization, and John Graham in particular for all the help we have received. > Does the OSGeo have its own hardware to support
the hosting of “free” or public domain geospatial data? Will it in the future?
In addition to the servers provided by Telascience we also have two rented servers at Peer1 (svn, trac, drupal, and mailman are on one of these servers). We are paying nearly $15K/yr for these two servers. So far geospatial data hosting has been accomplished via the servers at Telascience. OSGeo has not to-date provided any resources of it's own (ie. budgeted for) in support of hosting geodata. Large scale geodata hosting is pretty demanding from a computational, disk space and bandwidth point of view and it would be likely be cost prohibitive for us to pursue it in a big way on commercially priced servers like the ones at Peer1. We (as a board) have had no requests from SAC or the Geodata committee for resources for geodata hosting. Personally, I'd be supportive of providing modest funding to purchase additional disk, and/or server resources that could be co-located at telascience if it would be valuable in hosting geodata hosting. There is some question in my mind just how central the *hosting* of free geodata is to our mission. Best regards, -- ---------------------------------------+-------------------------------------- I set the clouds in motion - turn up | Frank Warmerdam, [email protected] light and sound - activate the windows | http://pobox.com/~warmerdam and watch the world go round - Rush | Geospatial Programmer for Rent _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
