On 7/1/2013 3:26 PM, Matt Simmons wrote: > 3) Lack of codification > Several professions have established a Body of Knowledge(BoK). > Interestingly enough, there IS a System Administration Body of > Knowledge. Geoff Halprin (a member of USENIX and founder of LOPSA) > compiled it circa 1997. Several of the people reading this email already > know this fact, and I would estimate that they are probably 99% of the > system administrators in the world who are aware of it. Personally, I > don't know if it was complete at the time of its compilation. I know > that it has not been maintained by the profession, or added to by any > groups, and I'm unsure as to exactly which group should be the party to > maintain it.
I think Aleksey Tsalolikhin wanted to do something with SA-BOK. See https://lopsa.org/content/sabok (As an aside, does anyone know of a mirror for SA-BOK? The links at that URL don't appear to be working.) If LOPSA shouldn't maintain something like SA-BOK, who would? Other things I think LOPSA could do: * Will Dennis mentioned a recommended reading list, which I think is a great idea. * We could also document practices and, if possible, explain why and when they're good and why and when they're bad. If we could document this, we could possibly get to the point of having a system administration pattern language, or at least relatively uniform pattern terminology. (This might fall under SA-BOK. SWEBOK looks awfully process-oriented. Maybe it's because I'm tired but I can't read it for very long before my eyes glaze over.) * We could maintain a curated collection of experiences or thoughts. This is inspired by Lawrence Chen's "Knowledge lost in time" email from about a week ago. Each of us probably knows something obscure that, some day, might be useful to someone else. (Yes, this sounds an awful lot like a blog, doesn't it? In theory, if someone else is curating it, it might be easier for people to contribute.) -- Chris Ess http://www.ithiriel.com _______________________________________________ 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/
