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?
We are looking for a few good sysadmins to assist with our public-facing infrastructure. Want to get to know one of the most inspiring volunteer movements on this planet?
Join 200+ exceptionally friendly Support Gang volunteers if you too want to redefine global learning in the 21st century -- getting started is as simple as emailing volunteer @ laptop.org and explaining what you have to offer!
Weekly meetings
Regular IRC meeting will be at irc://irc.oftc.net#olpc-admin 4:00 pm EST (UTC-5), or 4:00 pm EDT (UTC-4) as appropriate, 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: irc://irc.oftc.net#olpc-admin or by clicking on this link
- (Please note that joining with the Guest nickname produces an (Erroneous Nickname) error on mibbit.)
- IRC: irc://irc.oftc.net#olpc-admin 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
- http://idea.laptop.org/
- Open an rt ticket: mailto:sysadmin@laptop.org
- RT request tracker
Purpose of the Volunteer Infrastructure Group aka infrastructure-gang
- Make system administration more effective and efficient
- Improve the infrastructure systems through "many hands/many minds"
- Strengthen ties with the community
Agenda for next meeting
wikidevel/testwiki
- http://vig.laptop.org/wiki/index.php/Recipe:migratewiki
- Big sister status (HH)
Meeting Minutes and Logs
- 18aug2009 log
- 04aug2009 log
- 28jul2009 log
- 21jul2009 log
- 14jul2009 log
- 07jul2009 log
- 30jun2009 log
- 16jun2009 log
- 09jun2009 log
- 02jun2009 log
- 19may2009 log
- 12may2009 log
- 05may2009 log
- 28apr2009 log
- 21apr2009 log
- 14apr2009 log
- 24feb2009 log
- 17feb2009 log
- 10feb2009 log
- 03feb2009 log
- 27jan2009 log
- 20jan2009 log
- 13jan2009 log
- 06jan2009 log
- 16dec2008 log
- 09dec2008 log
- 02dec2008 log
- 25nov2008 log
- 18nov2008 log
- 11nov2008 log
- 04nov2008 log
- 28oct2008 log
- 24oct2008 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
Subpages
- Volunteer Infrastructure Group
- Volunteer Infrastructure Group/2008-08-12
- Volunteer Infrastructure Group/2008-08-17
- Volunteer Infrastructure Group/2008-08-19
- Volunteer Infrastructure Group/2008-08-19-internal
- Volunteer Infrastructure Group/2008-08-26
- Volunteer Infrastructure Group/2008-09-09
- Volunteer Infrastructure Group/2008-09-16
- Volunteer Infrastructure Group/2008-09-23
- Volunteer Infrastructure Group/2008-09-30
- Volunteer Infrastructure Group/2008-10-07
- Volunteer Infrastructure Group/2008-10-14
- Volunteer Infrastructure Group/2008-10-14/preAgenda
- Volunteer Infrastructure Group/2008-10-28
- Volunteer Infrastructure Group/2008-10-28/preAgenda
- Volunteer Infrastructure Group/2008-10/28
- Volunteer Infrastructure Group/2008-11-04/preAgenda
- Volunteer Infrastructure Group/2008-11-11/preAgenda
- Volunteer Infrastructure Group/2008-11-18/preAgenda
- Volunteer Infrastructure Group/Agenda
- Volunteer Infrastructure Group/Databases
- Volunteer Infrastructure Group/RT
- Volunteer Infrastructure Group/RT/Strategy
- Volunteer Infrastructure Group/oldmeetings
- Volunteer Infrastructure Group/planet