Discussions with the National Computational Infrastructure (NCI) at Australian National University are progressing with regard to hosting OpenStreetMap Servers (which you can see a list of here: https://hardware.openstreetmap.org/). AARNET hosted 2 servers for about 5 years until December 2024, mainly providing a local endpoint for changeset management.
Hopefully these discussions end in action. There is goodwill from NCI, especially since they're in the middle of a hardware refresh and they have spare capacity using the old hardware. Grant Slater (from the OSMF) is in direct communication with the NCI staff, I'm just following along. On Thu, 1 May 2025 at 05:48, Adam Steer via Oceania <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > This post in the OSGeo system admin committee list: > > https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/sac/2025-April/016732.html > > ...and this article from OSL: > > 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 > _______________________________________________ > Oceania mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/oceania >
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