Re: Volunteer administrators (was: Re: Guy's Rants about volunteerism)

2001-12-24 Thread Omer Zak
On Mon, 24 Dec 2001, guy keren wrote: Would it save Guy's time (and the time of other busy volunteers) if newbie volunteer/s join and perform more routine tasks (if necessary,under the supervision of the oldtimers)? great. so now i'll have to: 1. explain to people who to do stuff. 2.

Re: Volunteer administrators (was: Re: Guy's Rants about volunteerism)

2001-12-24 Thread Shachar Shemesh
In the interest of reducing the amount of rants/flames/tomato throwing/A-bomb making/fish slapping, I will now officially state that I have offered my help in maintaining the security of the server. I have one welcome and four silent agreements (i.e. - people who were notified but did not say

Re: Volunteer administrators (was: Re: Guy's Rants about volunteerism)

2001-12-24 Thread guy keren
On Mon, 24 Dec 2001, Shachar Shemesh wrote: In the interest of reducing the amount of rants/flames/tomato throwing/A-bomb making/fish slapping, I will now officially state that I have offered my help in maintaining the security of the server. I have one welcome and four silent agreements

Re: Volunteer administrators (was: Re: Guy's Rants about volunteerism)

2001-12-24 Thread Ely Levy
I agree with most of the e-mail but I don't think it should be so aggressive. I had a long talk with Nadav harel last night, about the purpose of iglu and the ways to accomplish that. the diffrance is between what guy think the purpose is to what Omer and me think it is.

Re: Volunteer administrators (was: Re: Guy's Rants about volunteerism)

2001-12-24 Thread Nimrod Simba Carmi
Hey Everyone, I haven't had the time to follow all these emails about volunteering/helping iglu, But I do have alot of free time, in general, and am willing to participate in any way I can. My servers, are only on two 128K ISDNs, so I can't really host anything big, but I can probaby

Re: Volunteer administrators (was: Re: Guy's Rants about volunteerism)

2001-12-24 Thread Ehud Karni
On Mon, 24 Dec 2001 12:53:46 +0200 (EET), guy keren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: someone need to write a backups script (no, not just 'tar things up', but also store older backups, erase even older backups, check that the backup does not fill the disk on which it resides). backups need be done

Re: Volunteer administrators (was: Re: Guy's Rants about volunteerism)

2001-12-24 Thread Omer Zak
The following E-mail message supports my claim that information needs to be publicly available in order for volunteers to come forth and offer help. On Mon, 24 Dec 2001, Ehud Karni wrote: On Mon, 24 Dec 2001 12:53:46 +0200 (EET), guy keren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: someone need to write a

Volunteer administrators (was: Re: Guy's Rants about volunteerism)

2001-12-23 Thread Omer Zak
On Sun, 23 Dec 2001, Nadav Har'El wrote: On Sun, Dec 23, 2001, Omer Zak wrote about Guy's Rants about volunteerism: Recently someone posted and asked for suggestions how to get Linux experience.He was open to offers to volunteer his time. I am sure there are several other youngsters in

Re: Volunteer administrators (was: Re: Guy's Rants about volunteerism)

2001-12-23 Thread guy keren
On Sun, 23 Dec 2001, Omer Zak wrote: While this is true, the person who is given the duty of high-level administration and security policy (rather than short-term work like just write a script that does '') will have to come with a considerable amount of Linux/Unix experience - e.g.,