Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: [SAC] Upgrade Planning 2014 - Project Feedback

2014-04-21 Thread Daniel Morissette
Hardware is important, but let's not forget that system administrator time is at least as important to keep an infrastructure running smoothly. Can we find ways to avoid relying solely on volunteer time to support the infrastructure? What about including funded sysadmin time in our new plan?

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: [SAC] Upgrade Planning 2014 - Project Feedback

2014-04-21 Thread Alex Mandel
Please add the idea of paid SAC time to the wiki page. I did contemplate this after the last board meeting where it was mentioned. A few ideas, * Stipend for up to a set limit of hours per month, ** Hours maybe approved by the committee before working * Earning points towards things like Foss4g

[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Google Summer of Code: 23 accepted students for 2014

2014-04-21 Thread Anne Ghisla
Hello all, and sorry for cross posting, let us warmly welcome the 23 accepted students and their mentors for this round of GSoC! We received over 60 proposals from a variety of geospatial projects - choosing wich ones to accept has been a difficult task, and we apologise for not being able to

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Google Summer of Code: 23 accepted students for 2014

2014-04-21 Thread P Kishor
My word! Congratulations all. May you make awesome things and set them free. -- Puneet Kishor Manager, Science and Data Policy Creative Commons On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 12:13 PM, Anne Ghisla a.ghi...@gmail.com wrote: Hello all, and sorry for cross posting, let us warmly welcome the 23

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Google Summer of Code: 23 accepted students for 2014

2014-04-21 Thread Daniel Morissette
Congratulations to all students, have a great summer of code! And thanks a lot to Anne, Hamish and Dustan for managing the program on behalf of OSGeo. Daniel On 14-04-21 3:13 PM, Anne Ghisla wrote: Hello all, and sorry for cross posting, let us warmly welcome the 23 accepted students and

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Upgrade Planning 2014 - Project Feedback

2014-04-21 Thread Jeff McKenna
I think this call should also go to our Local Chapters around the world (from traveling to local chapters, I know that they face challenges as our infrastructure is currently just based in North America). Sending... -jeff On 2014-04-18, 8:50 PM, Alex Mandel wrote: Calling all Project

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Google Summer of Code: 23 accepted students for 2014

2014-04-21 Thread Yves Jacolin
+1 ! This is really a great job :) Y. Le lundi 21 avril 2014, 16:11:10 Daniel Morissette a écrit : Congratulations to all students, have a great summer of code! And thanks a lot to Anne, Hamish and Dustan for managing the program on behalf of OSGeo. Daniel On 14-04-21 3:13 PM, Anne