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Section on ethics #265

Open jrgifford opened 9 years ago

jrgifford commented 9 years ago

As systems administrators, we have a great deal of access to information - and more so with the Bring Your Own Device trend. I'm sure that we've all discovered things in the course of doing our jobs that we either wish we hadn't known, or have found it difficult to keep secret (examples include that coworkerA is going out with coworkerB, or that the company is definitely not doing as well financially as they make it seem).

I believe that the opsschool curriculum should spend some time (not necessarily a lot, but some) on dealing with this.

miketheman commented 9 years ago

Hi @jrgifford !

Thanks for the interest. As you probably saw, we have a section with pretty much nothing in it. https://github.com/opsschool/curriculum/blob/master/sysadmin_101.rst#ethics

Do you have any ideas of where we might start with this kind of topic?

mjulian commented 9 years ago

LOPSA and USENIX put a large amount of work into a Code of Ethics many years ago (https://lopsa.org/CodeOfEthics). Perhaps a good starting point on ethics may just be to expound on each of the points made in their document, using it as an outline for writing an article.

On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 6:46 AM, Mike Fiedler notifications@github.com wrote:

Hi @jrgifford https://github.com/jrgifford !

Thanks for the interest. As you probably saw, we have a section with pretty much nothing in it. https://github.com/opsschool/curriculum/blob/master/sysadmin_101.rst#ethics

Do you have any ideas of where we might start with this kind of topic?

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/opsschool/curriculum/issues/265#issuecomment-94455498 .

jrgifford commented 9 years ago

That is likely to be a good place to start.