OLPC:Volunteer Infrastructure Group

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

Next IRC meeting will be at irc.oftc.net:#olpc-admin 4:00 pm EST (-05:00 UCT), every Tuesday

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 is collaborating towards the success of the project.

How to get in touch

* #olpc-admin on oftc.net

* or by click on this link

I-g Meeting notes

• Logs
• Agenda
• ToDo

Contacts

The following infrastructures are in place to support this initiative:

• Mailing list: mailto:olpc-sysadmin@lists.laptop.org
• Mailing list info Archives
• IRC channel: irc.oftc.net:#olpc-admin
• Open an rt ticket: mailto:sysadmin@laptop.org
• RT request tracker

OLD Logs

• 21oct2008 log
• 14oct2008
• 07oct2008
• 30sep2008
• 23sep2008
• 16sep2008
• 09sep2008
• 26aug2008
• 19aug2008
• 17aug2008
• 12aug2008

Sysadmin meeting notes

• /2008-08-19-internal

OLD Tasks

Possible initial tasks 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

We will consider expanding the scope of the project as we learn more about what works.