Hi Nicky, On 15 February 2013 03:21, Nicky Scopes <[email protected]> wrote: > hi all, does anyone know of any open source projects? either local or further > afield that i could get into, i dont want to do programming mainly IT, i am > studying for LPIC-2 and have A+ ,CCNA among my many certifications.
That's a tough one. OSS projects are usually about producing the software - there's already infrastructure available for hosting and distributing it (github, sourceforge, cpan, etc.) so the need for ops skills on-project are usually pretty minimal to non-existent. Some thoughts: * You might look to open source organisations like mozilla or apache who run their own infrastructure. They obviously have ops folk - but I imagine that that's mostly on a permanent basis rather than a volunteer basis. I'm not an ops person so don't really know. * You might want too look at some of the more ops-related projects (chef, puppet, vagrant, etc.) and see if there are ways you can help without coding. Documentation is often a place that projects fall down on. Helping out there could be useful. I'd also - in the long term - think a bit about not wanting to code. More and more stuff in the ops field need some developer skills to go along with the ops skills. If you've not come across it already have a google around the term "devops" - there's some really interesting stuff happening in that space now. If you're planning a career in operations I think development skills are going to be part of what you need to learn at some point. Might as well start now ;-) Cheers, Adrian -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2013-03-05 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread on mailing list: mailto:[email protected] How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
