Coming back from the SIG Libre conference (Spanish FOSS4G meetup) I had a chat with Miguel Sevilla (OSGeo Charter Member, CC’ed) about Zaragoza University offering storage to mirror OSGeo’s download server in their infrastructure here in Spain. Miguel already mentioned this on the SAC chat room some time ago so better probably to continue the discussion on an email thread.
Also on CC on this thread is Ángel Balo, member of the Open Source office at Zaragoza University.
If OSGeo is interested on having a mirror in Europe, from the technical point of view they’d from OSGeo
A brief description of the assets to host
Current storage required
Some estimation of growth
Preferred synchronization technology (rsync?). I see that we already support anonymous rsync download
There may also some other bureaucracy required (a memorandum of understanding, or something similar I guess) but that can happen in parallel.
Hi Jorge: thanks for the info. I think an analysis and recommendation
from SAC can help determine next steps.
Can SAC review and provide feedback as a first step? Of course, once
time permits, given the current migration efforts.
Thanks
..Tom
On Fri, Sep 19, 2025 at 5:13 AM Jorge Sanz <jsanz@osgeo.org> wrote:
Hi SAC,
Coming back from the SIG Libre conference (Spanish FOSS4G meetup) I had a chat with Miguel Sevilla (OSGeo Charter Member, CC'ed) about Zaragoza University offering storage to mirror OSGeo's download server in their infrastructure here in Spain. Miguel already mentioned this on the SAC chat room some time ago so better probably to continue the discussion on an email thread.
Also on CC on this thread is Ángel Balo, member of the Open Source office at Zaragoza University.
If OSGeo is interested on having a mirror in Europe, from the technical point of view they'd from OSGeo
A brief description of the assets to host
Current storage required
Some estimation of growth
Preferred synchronization technology (rsync?). I see that we already support anonymous rsync download
There may also some other bureaucracy required (a memorandum of understanding, or something similar I guess) but that can happen in parallel.
Hi Jorge: thanks for the info. I think an analysis and recommendation
from SAC can help determine next steps.
Can SAC review and provide feedback as a first step? Of course, once
time permits, given the current migration efforts.
Thanks
..Tom
Thanks Tom,
I'm fully aware of current status of SAC duties, so please consider this as low priority and something we can tackle later this year. I'll bring the thread back if there's no activity in three months or so.