Though it would be a good idea if we paid someone (preferably a member of
SAC), to work thru the tickets we have and try to fix as many of them as
possible.
So time would be 50hrs at $5000 USD.
First dealing with the high priority tickets which at this time would be our
SSL and LDAP tickets.
Ones that seem very involved can be marked with estimate of time. Many I
suspect are already done and should just be closed or too late to do
anything with (so mark as wontfix).
Anyone up for the challenge?
Also Sandro and Jeff, please feel free to expand /correct the above
statements.
.... thinking about it: Is the offer limited to freelancers only ?
Martin.
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I'm in permanent employment since beginning of this year and I'm having a
family with two kids, which in total leaves little time to carry out major
side-projects (I still do have smaller ones
My SAC EMail inbox contains approx. 1.5k unread list postings and just
grouping these, identifying correspnding links and the like would cost more
time than I could (want to) afford.
On the other hand I know the OSGeo server infrastructure pretty well and I
might ask my employer to sell 50 hours of my work time at the given rate to
work on dedicated topics to be discussed.
Does this sound like a reasonable idea ?
Markus Neteler: Would you please consider judging wether I'd be betraying my
own credo ?
Cheers,
Martin.
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On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 6:08 PM, Martin Spott <Martin.Spott@mgras.net> wrote:
Sandro Santilli wrote:
What alternatives do you have in mind ?
This one:
I'm in permanent employment since beginning of this year and I'm having a
family with two kids, which in total leaves little time to carry out major
side-projects (I still do have smaller ones
My SAC EMail inbox contains approx. 1.5k unread list postings and just
grouping these, identifying correspnding links and the like would cost more
time than I could (want to) afford.
On the other hand I know the OSGeo server infrastructure pretty well and I
might ask my employer to sell 50 hours of my work time at the given rate to
work on dedicated topics to be discussed.
Does this sound like a reasonable idea ?
(to me yes - but I'll answer only to the next question for now)
Markus Neteler: Would you please consider judging wether I'd be betraying my
own credo ?
Thanks for asking me...
So, I don't think so - time is a limiting factor for many of us.
Hence, "tunneling" work for OSGeo-SAC through a permanent position as
you suggest is probably the only viable way for you in order to not
cut too much into family time. Besides a paid contract we can always
donate more time as volunteers.
Overall, while the suggestion may work ok for the board (I suppose
there is no real difference for the foundation if a contract is
awarded to a freelancer or a company) a clarification will likely be
needed for you from your company whether or not they are willing to
sell hours to OSGeo. But probably you have already discussed that
internally.
Not sure if my comment is useful at all
Concerning the process: bids will be collected and then SAC proposes a
candidate to the board? Maybe this is RTFM but I don't recall right
now.
On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 06:52:52PM +0200, Markus Neteler wrote:
On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 6:08 PM, Martin Spott <Martin.Spott@mgras.net> wrote:
>
> On the other hand I know the OSGeo server infrastructure pretty well and I
> might ask my employer to sell 50 hours of my work time at the given rate to
> work on dedicated topics to be discussed.
>
> Does this sound like a reasonable idea ?
(to me yes - but I'll answer only to the next question for now)
It sounds reasonable to me as well.
I'd be very happy to know you funded for OSGeo work.
Concerning the process: bids will be collected and then SAC proposes a
candidate to the board? Maybe this is RTFM but I don't recall right
now.
I think SAC also decides on who will get the contract, and Board is
only contacted for paper signing. Of course this is assuming there
is availability of funds, which the Budget page doesn't confirm at
the moment as it isn't updated (Alex can you update that page?) https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/SAC:Budget
Overall, while the suggestion may work ok for the board (I suppose
there is no real difference for the foundation if a contract is
awarded to a freelancer or a company) a clarification will likely be
needed for you from your company whether or not they are willing to
sell hours to OSGeo.
While one of our core businesses is selling consultancy service anyway, I
just got confirmation that they are willing to sign a contract with OSGeo as
well. If OSGeo wants to.
Be assured that I don't mean to challenge the our sales department and that
I'm not rewarded any advantage for making a deal with OSGeo.
Cheers,
Martin.
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Thanks for asking me...