Just a note – not much better in Aus, where Science and Tech and Research deserved 0 note in the entire campaign form the major parties ( same as environment, really). ARC envelope will not change ( not applicable here anyway), NCRIS – who knows, so moving something here may not be for the long term… This seems to need more than hosting – it need devops/sysadmin pay ( at least 0.6FTE). Not sure where this would be found these days. M>
From: Oceania <[email protected]> on behalf of Simon Nitz via Oceania <[email protected]> Date: Thursday, 1 May 2025 at 5:57 am To: Adam Steer <[email protected]>, OSgeo - Oceania <[email protected]> Subject: [EXT] Re: [OSGeo Oceania] OSGeo infrastructure - call for support External email: Please exercise caution ________________________________ Maybe it’s a good time to think a little bit out of the square and stand up our own system using nextcloud if we can secure some infrastructure in AU https://nextcloud.com/<https://nextcloud.com/> Thoughts? Simon From: Oceania <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Adam Steer via Oceania Sent: Thursday, 1 May 2025 7:48 AM To: OSgeo - Oceania <[email protected]> Subject: [OSGeo Oceania] OSGeo infrastructure - call for support Hi everyone A lot of OSGeo's services rely on the Open Source Lab at Oregon State University - and it is currently facing an uncertain future. See this post from Regina Obe (long timeOSGeo system admin): https://mapstodon.space/@robe/114428365405157722<https://mapstodon.space/@robe/114428365405157722> This post in the OSGeo system admin committee list: https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/sac/2025-April/016732.html<https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/sac/2025-April/016732.html> ...and this article from OSL: https://osuosl.org/blog/osl-future/<https://osuosl.org/blog/osl-future/> What can we do in Oceania? I see two things: apply funding to the problem; and/or apply infrastructure (we do have aome very large computers that call themselves national infrastructure lurking about in Australia). If you're in a position to influence in either (or some other way, noting that OSGeo and all the other projects are well aware of commercial cloud providers and the risks involved) - please get in contact directly with OSL by 14 May (see details in the OSL article). Cheers, Adam
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