On Thu, Jan 06, 2011 at 06:37:44AM -0500, Michael C Tiernan wrote: > > Would it be wrong to also develop a list of "expectations" or core > competencies (or groups of competencies) that a "System Administrator" > (Jouinor, Mid-level, Senior) should have or aspire to? >
This would be incredibly valuable. However, this is a non-trivial list to generate in any sort of either cross-platform or categorized way. This is a project on LOPSA's wish list, but it's such a major undertaking to even remotely do in a useful way that we've not had resources (mostly volunteers) to do it. If we got ten people suddenly excited about doing this AND that had a wide range of experiences in different technologies and types of organizations those ten people could make some great progress on this. Yet, finding a variety of experience among people that want to do the project make it quite difficult. I would not want to see a great effort in one area, say Linux (though even that has enough variety it would be difficult to do without having sub-categories for each of the major distrubition types), and then have no effort whatsoever in any other area. That would mean we not only failed the project, but we, once aain, look like we are not platform/technology agnostic/neutral. This is another example of how our organization's size and limited resources hinder our progress. We won't get larger, and we won't get these types of projects to happen, unless we get the word out. ... Which brings this back on-topic for the thread. We need people to help us spread the word, bring in new people (with their new ideas and experiences), and we need a more active membership in this process. We all are members of LOPSA, and we all should be recruiting new members. We all benefit collectively and individually when we make LOPSA grow. We each get better, more useful member benefits, and we all get better programs and projects from LOPSA as an organization. Cheers, Jesse -- Jesse Trucks, GCUX [email protected] Director, LOPSA http://lopsa.org _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
