User:Scellef

Sean Ellefson

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

I am also a volunteer Junior System Administrator for the Computer Action Team at Portland State University's Maseeh College of Engineering and Computer Science. If you're a PSU student and have the slightest interest in systems or network administration, IT, CS, or IRC, you should look into the Braindump.

Write things on my Talk page! :D

Plan

As of 13 July 2011

1. Produce technical documentation corresponding to skills useful in Desktops, Laptops and Servers,
   • How to Read System Logs,
   • The Art of Google-fu,
   • RAID and LVM in Debian,
   • Troubleshooting from the CLI (with examples!),
   • Productivity from the CLI (when, task, & mutt),
   • Regular Expressions (grep & sed),
   • Updating BIOS,
   • IRC, irssi, and screen,
   • Phone Administration

As of 14 June 2011

1. Familiarize myself Laptops' procedures, methods, and layout,
   • Learn Gateway, HP, and IBM/Lenovo models, hardware, and nuances,
   • Research and regularly document price ranges and Linux compatibility with the above brands,
   • Review Laptops documentation, and form strategies for streamlining the integration of Laptop production into Desktop Build.
2. Research and analyze production in Desktops and Laptops,
   • Devise strategies for recruiting quality Laptop builders and Build Instructors.
3. Review and revise Desktop troubleshooting documentation,
4. Learn and implement maildrop rules so I won't have to wrestle with Thunderbird's lackluster filters anymore.

Projects

Reuse

• Optimizing Laptop production,
  • Integrating Laptop production into Desktops,
  • Updating Laptop documentation and organization.
• Draft policies corresponding to Desktops, Laptops and Servers,
• Update Laptop specs to correspond with processor models rather than clockspeed,
• Draft agenda for Build Instructor training on 28 July 2011,
• Reorganize Server RAM stock,
• Extinguish printed Builder sheets (oof).

Phones

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

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.

Timeline

These tentative objectives and time frames will surely keep me ON TOP OF EVERYTHING EVER.

By 25 July 2011

I hope to have all of the items in my 14 June 2011 plan knocked out, and to have some tangible elements of my Reuse projects in place.

Documentation

Port Forwarding
Laptop QC Checklist for Builders
Processor Comparisons

Useful Links

MediaWiki Help Pages
MediaWiki Formatting
FreekiWiki Special Pages

Personal Archive

2011