Getting Involved

Why do you want to be a member of the GNOME sysadmin team?

• You help your favorite desktop out
• You get to learn new technologies
• Resume padding (You have the opportunity to write things like "Designed and implemented user database for worldwide network of 500 developers"). Lots of action verb potential.
• Small amounts of glory.
• You think system administration is fun.

What does being a member of the GNOME sysadmin team mean?

• You get a subscription to the private gnome-sysadmin@gnome.org mailing list.
• You get access to the private gnome-sysadmin web pages.
• You are eligible to volunteer for such exciting tasks as cleaning spam out of the request tracker.

What are the responsibilities of being a member of the GNOME sysadmin team?

• If you volunteer to work on something, and things change and you don't have time, let us know.
• Document what you do
• Ask first, rather than later in case of uncertainty.

What sort of stuff needs doing in gnome-sysadmin?

• Handling account requests
• Version upgrades to systems like Bugzilla and Mailman.
• Implementation of new systems (LDAP user directory, better CVS mirroring system, ssh based CVS access are some of the current projects.)
• General system maintenance (errata, old account cleanup, etc.)

What sort of skills are useful?

• Knowledge of MySQL/Apache/CVS/OpenLDAP/bugzilla/mailman/LXR/etc.
• Knowledge of shell/perl/python/etc.
• Willingness to document and communicate.