[OSM-dev] The future of sysadmin

[D Tucny]

On 19/07/07, Steve Coast <steve at asklater.com> wrote:
>
>
> Where all the machines are, today, is in central london. I'd love you
> to host machines. Multiple times people have offered to host T at H on
> their servers, and it's not happened. openstreetmap.de sits basically
> idle AFAIK. So - while I respect that you may want to host some part
> of OSM at your machine, and I think it's a good idea, and I'll help
> if I can, and I'm sorry that I'm evil, I have to deal with the
> immediate problem of a lack of sysadmins and people who can fix the
> existing machines, which are spinning right now.
>
> Please help me deal with this problem.
>
> I need people who are very competent with machines in racks, _very_
> competent with linux, who have people skills to communicate with our
> hosts at UCL, who can travel to central London and install / fix
> things that arise and who are trusted by the community. Such people
> might live in Oxford. You will need to help price, buy and install
> new machines and remote power and remote consoles. Really - I cannot
> describe to you how difficult it is going to be to move forward with
> new hardware if we don't have one or two people as described in this
> paragraph.
>
> It will be a pain in the arse - but you'll be helping your 9,000
> friends.
>
> Next, we need more sysadmins. How do we do this? Do we continue with
> a person per machine or function (eg, all the tile machines say, if
> we have more than one?). Do we have some other system? Do we need a
> steering committee for this? How have other projects managed it?


I'd like to offer my services if you want them, one issue is that I can't
get to London easily, it would be 20 hours of travelling and great expense
for me to do that, but, I have been managing systems, largely remotely, for
a number of years, my own, also hosted in London, as well as stacks of
others all around the world in enterprise environments, another potential
positive is that I'm in the GMT+8 timezone which could work with regards
coverage... I can give more details if you need them, but, I just wanted to
volunteer myself in the first instance...

Thanks,

d
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