Are they a group of benevolent ServerGnomes? No, they are:
$ getent group sysadmins sysadmins:*:301:perry,jamie,daniel,crb,jrm,matt,gnubie
This is the list of who set up what - however, in general, anyone should be able to do anything, and lean on the subject matter expert if required.
PerryLorierPerryLorier, JamieCurtis, DanielLawsonCraigBoxDanielLawsonPerryLorier, MattBrownMattBrownCommittee members who want to change e-mail aliases can contact anyone in the Sysadmins group. They will go edit /etc/aliases on mail.wlug.org.nz. This mostly applies to WLUG officers and administrative roles, not people with shell accounts.
There is no reason for people to leave the WlugSysadmins group after they have left the area or left the country. Through the magic of the Internet they are still able to help out, and their help is appreciated. Also hopefully it will give them incentive to keep paying their dues (if they're reminded!).
As announced at a recent meeting, we would like to revitalize administration and development of the server and various software projects people involved with WLUG have started. Below you'll find some more information about ideas and goals we will be working toward.
If you would like to become an admin, first you'll need an account on hoiho, so contact ChrisOhalloran about that. After that either let Chris or JohnBillings know, via email why you would like to be an admin, what skills and experience you have, then we will take it to the committee and approve your request and get whatever admin access you need sorted.
Need something like an AUP for admins. Must agree to respect privacy of others. Can be removed at discretion of the Committee. Please let us know if you're finished, so we can remove your access.
(turn this into some sort of mission statement)
The WLUG wiki, and other services have become important resources. This is really cool. They should be treated as production systems, and the admins take care in the maintenance of this system. We should not forget the point though, the people who initiated this project were engaged in self directed learning. A LUG has a number of purposes, and one of them is education. New people should be encouraged to get involved, as users, or as admins of this system if they have some skills, and an idea how to contribute.
WlugSysadmins need to be on board and support the WlugCommittee, who of course serve the WlugCommunity. Our new focus is making Software Freedom Day our signature event, (not like installfests and stuff in the past) and to continue to provide a good educational resource to the local community with our presentations, and to a larger audience via the WlugWiki. The work we do on our infrastructure should support this effort.
Some ideas:
More NewIdeas
Things we are serious about doing are here: CommitteeToDo
Timeline: WikiHistory
Perry has always been the UberAdmin. Generally building of the system happened at DaHoose. Craig set up the mail, Daniel handled LDAP, John, Perry and Matt, the wiki (and Matt, Planet WLUG). John wrote the user admin scripts and WlugLibrary. Jamie was our hardware/networking point guy. As of Feb 2009, Daniel did the most recent physical maintenance since he lived in Auckland, but there are countless people who have helped out with the machine/s over time, and no discussion would be complete without a special thank you to Sahil Gupta and his amazing falling-on-Ctrl-Alt-Del keyboard.
5 pages link to WlugSysadmins:
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