ASS
ASS is an acronym representing "Administrators of Systems and Security".
The ASSes are the oldest working group at Free Geek. They are the people who design and manage the network at Free Geek, and are responsible for developing our IT security policy.
You'd think this would mean we'd have a better wiki section =:)
Members
(ASSes, please list yourselves here):
- Martin Chase
- Michael Westwind
- Richard Seymour
- Dave Haskins
- Kenny
- Joren
- Jeff
- Matteo
- Vagrant
- Stacy
- Michael Limb
- Ryan Niebur
Vancouver, BC, Canada ASSes:
Joining
Talk to one of the people listed above. Sign up on our email list. Attend a meeting. This will get you involved with the group, and put you in a place where you can start to help us. This is referred to as being a Half-ASS. From here, keep working with us and prove yourself to be trustworthy and competent in the eyes of 3 ASSes, and you will be accepted as an ASS-Whole.
ASS Priorities
Here is a list of what ASSes should prioritize when making decisions.
- Communicate effectively with your users. Communicate with other ASSes about what you're doing.
- Maintain effective security; stop people from doing things that they shouldn't be doing.
- Maintain data integrity for our users and our systems.
- Do not violate or let be violated the privacy of your users.
- Keep all your services in working order (e.g. research a new version before upgrading to it)
- Minimize and mitigate any downtime that happens or is necessary to have.
- Be efficient, paying attention to requests of more importance before minor issues.
- Uphold our local organizational policies as well as the accepted laws related to your work.
- Do not abuse Free Geek's resources, and help to prevent others from doing the same (excessive network traffic, excessive printing).
- Try not to be annoying; people will complain much sooner and louder if something bothers them than if something is just broken.
- Do what it takes to understand the implications of your actions before taking them, so that you can knowingly apply these priorities.
Ongoing Tasks
- RootMail Cleanup - Often (Matteo)
- Tape Swapping - Weekly (Richard)
- Test UPSes in server room - once per week/ASS meeting/month
- apt-get upgrade - check nagios, or once per month
- Reporting debian bugs
$ reportbug PACKAGENAME- or -$ reportbug --no-check-available PACKAGENAME- http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting
- http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Access
- updating netboot
- http://ftp.debian.org/dists/ * /main/installer-i386/current/images/netboot/
- http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/ * /main/installer-i386/current/images/netboot/
- Services provided to other groups
More fun
Some folks at Free Geek or in our extended community are CA Cert Assurers. See the page.