Or, of course, another option would be those members of OSGeo who are more or less corporate members could volunteer time of a member of staff who would otherwise be not contributing to the OSGeo effort.
And in defence of all those who are not developers, being a sys admin is rather harder than printing brochures or accounting. Some might even suggest it is as hard as being a developer. But we wouldn't want to listen to them, would we ;) Cheers Chris ----- "Paolo Cavallini" <cavall...@faunalia.it> wrote: > Hi all. > Concerning ticket http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/392 > I think the discussion should be brought to the attention of the list. > For my experience, I do not > think server administration is well suited for volunteer work. To me, > server administration is a > service, more or less like accounting or printing brochures. > Moreover, I do not think precious developer time (the main limiting > resource for open source > software IMHO) is profitably spent administering servers (but thanks > to all who are doing it!). > In short, I'm suggesting to hire a part time server admin, who should > be in charge of software > upgrades (e.g. the trac) etc. > All the best. > -- > Paolo Cavallini: http://www.faunalia.it/pc > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@lists.osgeo.org > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss ------ Files attached to this email may be in ISO 26300 format (OASIS Open Document Format). If you have difficulty opening them, please visit http://iso26300.info for more information. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
