[OSM-dev] New database server

[Ian Dees]

Can someone add more information about when and how the OWG meets? The wiki
page is pretty bare on how one might help:

http://www.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Operations_Working_Group


On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 10:07 AM, Simon Poole <simon at poole.ch> wrote:

>
> I normally stay out of the tech bike-shedding discussions, however I do
> want to point out
>
> - we are aeons away from requiring and running cutting/bleeding edge
> hardware (and having to pay for such)
>
> - in the grand scheme of things we are not spending a lot of money on
> hardware (on the one hand our sys admins and the OWG are very frugal and
> on the other see the first point)
>
> - the amount of money we spend is a lot of money for the foundation, at
> least relative to our other spending, however it is extremely unlikely
> that we could away with spending less regardless of implementation
> (distributed, 3rd party cloud etc etc etc).
>
> - our current setup is fairly straightforward, fancier schemes are very
> likely to be more error prone with the associated costs (manpower)
>
> All this said, I would recommend that anybody who actually wants to help
> should participate in the OWG and help with the other tech tasks that we
> have in abundance.
>
> Simon
>
>
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