tsykoduk
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9 years ago I'm more then happy to continue to support the Railsbridge DNS, and take on other tasks as time permits!
Open lilliealbert opened 9 years ago
tsykoduk
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9 years ago I'm more then happy to continue to support the Railsbridge DNS, and take on other tasks as time permits!
lilliealbert
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9 years ago @tsykoduk Sounds great!
jcaudle
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9 years ago I'm happy to assist with DNS related stuff, as well as other areas as needed. I've mentored at the Indianapolis RailsBridge, but would love to help out here too. Monitoring and Security patches seem like a good fit for me, but I could help with the password manager decisions too.
jmunevar
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9 years ago I can help out with IT Ops at Railsbridge. I work in IT, so this is up my alley.
Been a Railsbridge student/TA/co-teacher for 5 or so workshops, and I'd love to help out anyway I can.
Where do I sign up?
eanakashima
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9 years ago @tsykoduk @jcaudle @jmunevar Awesome! We're going to do a short kickoff meeting on Monday, January 26th at 5:30pm PST via google hangout to introduce ourselves and figure out who's interested in what, but if you can't make it, no worries, just let me know. I'll try to post some notes after and keep you in the loop.
eanakashima
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9 years ago Thanks to everyone who made it to our kickoff call yesterday. If you couldn't make it, no worries — here's what we covered:
:sparkles: :heart:
alexch
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9 years ago I'm lurking too. Sorry I couldn't make the meeting but I'm also around for IT help.
On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 2:36 AM, Emily Nakashima notifications@github.com wrote:
Thanks to everyone who made it to our kickoff call yesterday. If you couldn't make it, no worries — here's what we covered:
- On the call: Emily, Lillie, Rachel, Jonathan, Lena
- Introductions & fun facts. Everyone on the call is SF-based, although there were a few East Coast folks who were interested in helping out too. Lillie wants you to buy Squishables http://www.squishable.com/.
- There's a pull request open on the Ops repo with some ideas about how we'll work together in railsbridge/ops#1 https://github.com/railsbridge/ops/pull/1 — please take a look and leave comments if you have ideas!
- We started a private repo (railsbridge/security https://github.com/railsbridge/security) so that we have a private place to discuss any application security problems.
- If you volunteered and haven't been added to the railsbridge-ops Slack channel, @lilliealbert https://github.com/lilliealbert can add you.
- We'll open separate issues for each of the possible projects on the ops repo — if you're interested in volunteering for any of them, you can "watch" the (railsbridge/ops https://github.com/railsbridge/ops) repo and comment on any issues you're interested in helping out with. You can also open a new issue and tag it with "idea" if you have a project idea you want to propose to the team.
[image: :sparkles:] [image: :heart:]
— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/railsbridge/board/issues/4#issuecomment-71792781.
Alex Chaffee - alex@stinky.com http://alexchaffee.com http://codelikethis.com http://twitter.com/alexch
jcaudle
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9 years ago I was in the middle of a move during the call, but I'm finally settled down and can definitely help out. I'd love to be added to the slack organization and look forward to seeing how the Ops team develops.
lilliealbert
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9 years ago @jcaudle sure, is joseph@josephcaudle.com the right email for the slack invite?
jcaudle
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9 years ago @lilliealbert that's perfect :smiley:
I'm recruiting 3-5 volunteers to be the RailsBridge IT / ops team. Maybe we'll rename it once it exists!
Recruitment Plan
Team Description
The RailsBridge IT/ops team is looking for volunteers who want to help us improve our IT & ops practices! We have several projects that need an owner (improving our password management, administering our Google apps account, etc.). The team will have a team lead and several members, including the lead developer on Bridge Troll and at least one RailsBridge board member.
Expectations / Time Commitment
Time commitment will vary depending on the project(s) that the person is involved with, and at what stage the project is in (i.e., planning / execution / maintenance). We imagine that the time commitment could vary from 2-20 hours a month (probably a minimum of 1 hour of reading email / uptime reports a month :smiley:). The board has a few initial projects specified below, but the team should figure out where the RailsBridge IT/ops infrastructure needs improvement and go for it.
The team lead will send the board a very brief monthly report of its current projects and any blockers, challenges, or things that they could use the support of the board on.
Projects
Set up password manager
Manage Google Apps
RailsBridge has a Google apps account that is currently managed by Sarah Allen and Lillie Chilen (and probably some other people with admin access). The IT/ops team will take over provisioning new user accounts.
Monitor RailsBridge.org, Bridge Troll, and Docs site uptime
Travis Grathwell is mostly responsible for Bridge Troll being up, and he, Lillie Chilen, and Jane Sebastian work on making sure RailsBridge.org is up. The IT/ops team will help manage monitoring / dealing with when the sites go down. (We're currently using Monitor.us, which is free, but only pings your site every 30 minutes, so that's a little sad.)
DNS
Hopefully Greg, who has volunteered to manage the RailsBridge DNSimple account, will join this team and continue to help with DNS needs.
Security
@tjgrathwell already responds pretty quickly to Rails or Ruby security patches for Bridge Troll, but it would be good for this team to be responsible for making sure that patches are applied in a timely manner, and maybe run Brakeman sometimes?