OLPC:Volunteer Infrastructure Group
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Infrastructure gang
Are you an experienced *NIX sysadmin looking for a way to volunteer for One Laptop per Child? Are you committed to upholding high ethical standardsin the performance of your sysadmin duties?
One Laptop per Child is pleased to announce OLPC's Infrastructure-group! We are looking for a few good sysadmins to assist with our public-facing infrastructure.
Weekly meetings
Regular IRC meeting will be at irc.oftc.net:#olpc-admin 4:00 pm EST (-05:00 UCT), every Tuesday
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Get involved
The spirit of OLPC includes one core thing: the community. This includes everyone, from the children and their families to their teachers and everyone who are collaborating towards the success of the project.
- How to get in touch
- The fast way to find us:
- Other Contacts
- The following infrastructures are in place to support this initiative:
- Mailing list: mailto:olpc-sysadmin@lists.laptop.org
- Mailing list info Archives
- Open an rt ticket: mailto:sysadmin@laptop.org
- RT request tracker
Purpose of the Volunteer Infrastructure Group aka infrastructure-gang
- Make the sysadmin's job easier
- Improve the infrastructure systems through "many hands/many minds"
- Strengthen ties with the community
Proposed agenda items for next meeting
- Status of teach.laptop.org
- Identify owners for critical existing services
- Status of RT ticket handling
- Mission-critical EXISTING services requiring care
- Migration to W91
- New business
Meeting Minutes and Logs
- 20jan2009 log
- 13jan2009 log
- 06jan2009 log
- 16dec2008 log
- 09dec2008 log
- 02dec2008 log
- 25nov2008 log
- 18nov2008 log
- 11nov2008 log
- 04nov2008 log
- 28oct2008 log
- 21oct2008 log
- 14oct2008
- 07oct2008
- 30sep2008
- 23sep2008
- 16sep2008
- 09sep2008
- 26aug2008
- 19aug2008 log
- 17aug2008
- 12aug2008
Current Projects
OLPC VIG projects include:
- Trac and git maintenance
- wiki extensions/improvements
- RT updating and administration
- Draft RT strategy
- Pootle administration
- Mailing list administration
- The Library and Sugar mailing lists could use some list administration help [1] 23:34, 19 August 2008 (UTC)
- Increase availability and reliability of public and private systems
- Databases availability for public services