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

--HH.

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:

• IRC: channel #olpc-admin on irc.oftc.net or by clicking on this link

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

• list of machine status (cjb)
• Status of teach.laptop.org (lfaraone)
• Identify owners for critical existing services
  • Status of RT ticket handling
    • adric rt spam issue
  • Mission-critical EXISTING services requiring care
  • Migration to W91 and cleaning the Serverroom at 1cc
    • awk: upgrade to 16 GB ram for pootle VM
    • weka: VMs to move bevor moving weka to W91: firmware, kino, proxy2
    • pictures of 1cc server room and W91: http://kuku.laptop.org/1ccw91/
• DNS
• kvm on thinker
• update the to monitored systems in bigsister on thinker and in the VM on owl (W91)
• http://www.ubuntu.com/products/whatisubuntu/serveredition/features/ec2
• New business

Meeting Minutes and Logs

• 27jan2009 log
• 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