User:Scellef

Sean Ellefson

I am the Reuse Department Point Person and Program Coordinator for Laptops, a Technocrat, and an ASS. Before being hired on at Free Geek, I was a volunteer Desktop & Server Build Instructor and Advanced Tester.

Projects

Reuse

• Optimizing Laptop production,
  • Updating Laptop documentation and organization (IP),
• Draft plans for seperate Laptop Eval program (IP),
• Draft policies corresponding to Desktops, Laptops and Servers (IP),
• Develop and test Mobile Wiping Station,
• Document and potentially automate FG scheduling.
• Revamp Writable Optical Drive testing.
  • Determine quota of distro and/or live CDs to burn and distribute,
  • Devise "Ultimate boot DVD" to account for DVD-RW drives

Phones

• Study documentation (IP),
• Remap phone paths:
  • Greeting mailbox,
  • Holiday mailbox,
  • Menu mailbox,
• Document web-based administration/programming (IP).

Scripts

• Mailing list search client,
• Laptop batterytest,
• CUPS printer status sheet generator,
• Graphviz task list generator,
• Store opening/closing music script.

Personal

• Continue SysAdmin self-education,
  • Develop System Administrator's Curriculæ,
  • Document forays into concepts, utilities, and languages.
• Acquire a Mighty Server,
  • Configure and maintain a(n):
    1. IRC server,
    2. Mailserver,
    3. LDAP server,
    4. Incremental backup server,
• Extol the virtues of IRC to anyone and everything that will listen,
  • Devise strategies for integrating IRC more into Free Geek infrastructure,
• Learn SQL, abuse zhora,
• Write a script to ease searching through mailman archives.

Documentation

Written

• Port Forwarding
• Laptop QC Checklist for Builders
• Processor Comparisons
• GRUB
• Phone Administration
• Notes on the Phone System
• Graphviz Tutorial
• Notes on Optical Media Formats
• Notes on Mobile Intel Processors
• Troubleshooting Optical Drives from the CLI
• Laptop Builder Orientation
• Template:Laptop Builder Orientation

Forthcoming

• Troubleshooting POST on Laptops
• Laptop Hardware ID
• Laptop Build Instructor Orientation Checklist
• Notes on Mobile AMD Processors
• How to Read System Logs
• The Art of Google-fu
• RAID and LVM in Debian
• Troubleshooting from the CLI
• Productivity from the CLI
• Regular Expressions
• Updating BIOS
• IRC, irssi, and screen

Useful Links

MediaWiki Help Pages
MediaWiki Formatting
FreekiWiki Special Pages

Interesting Links

• The CAT: Braindump
• My HTML & CSS Class Page
• How Linux suspend and resume works in the ACPI age
• ArchWiki: System Encryption

Drafts

• Distro Intern Description Draft
• Laptop Builder Orientation Checklist
• Laptop Instructor Intern Description Draft
• Laptop Evaluation Intern Description Draft
• Laptop Build Intern Description Draft

Personal Archive

2011