On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 8:59 AM, slabbe <sla...@gmail.com> wrote: > Well, I think that if, someday, you know you want to go AWOL for a > while, you should think about it a long time before. Something like a > year before. You should make sure that all the knowledge you have > (right access to all the tools AND how to use them) have been shared > to people in the community. > > > There are about 3-4 other people with admin privileges on most of > > our hardware resources, and they are physically in the UW math department > > server room (so professionally hosted and unaffected by me being AWOL). > The > > DNS stuff (sagemath.org) is all 100% admin'd by me via godaddy.com, so I > > should find a way to fix things so that if somebody else needs to manage > the > > DNS stuff that is possible (any volunteers -- Harald?). > > > > Anyway, I would appreciate people sharing their thoughts about how to > make > > the Sage project more organized with respect to key people vanishing -- > > either temporarily or permantly -- from the project. If you have > relevant > > experience with other projects, or no of good articles about this sort of > > thing, etc., please share. > > > > I was involved in the Fédération québécoise d'ultimate (frisbee) in > the last two years and as a President for the last one until May 2009. > Since I knew I was not going to renew my mandate, I was thinking a lot > in all that year about how will the FQU continue its evolution without > me. I must say here that the way I developped the FQU was a lot > influenced by the Sage organizational structure and also by opinions > written on sage-devel by the main developpers.
Cool :-) > So, dear William Stein, how much do you know that nobody else know?! > The only thing I can think of along these lines is the login credentials for GoDaddy.com, from whom I rent the sagemath.org and sagenb.org domain names. Harald has volunteered to also hold that info. I might not be thinking of something obvious though. William --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
