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.
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
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 are collaborating towards the success of the project.
- How to get in touch
- IRC: #olpc-admin on irc.oftc.net
- or by clicking on this link
I-g Meeting notes
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
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.
