[Foundation-l] Fundraising season launch

[Brion Vibber]

George Herbert wrote:
> I've been wandering around mailing list archives, the
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_servers and
> https://wikitech.leuksman.com/view/Main_Page webpages, and ... I still can't
> figure out an entry point or enough status info on what's going on, for
> helping out with the server admin and architecture stuff.  I've been told
> the wikitech-l but nothing's there either.
> 
> This is a particularly bad area for the Foundation to have be opaque.
> 
> My day job is a consultant in systems architecture and project management
> for UNIX and Linux.  I've designed and built and operated similarly sized
> sites before.  I would like to help with this area, from systems
> architecture through operational management and documentation (and hands on
> admin if need be).  Where do I start?

The wikitech.leuksman.com wiki is primarily for our own documentation of setup
and administrative actions, and is not used for discussion.

The operations team hangs out in #wikimedia-tech on irc.freenode.net.

Decision-making, such as our recent agreement on which Linux distribution to use
for new installations or picking which hardware to order, tend to be in a
private channel e-mail; such discussions in public tend to get waaaaaaay too
much noise. :P

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)

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