Good day fellow Server enthusiasts!
Firstly I would like to apologize for missing this morning's meeting - I'm in the finals stage of this semester at University, and I elected to take the day off to work on required school tasks.
Secondly, a little background. I am a Systems Engineer (according to my employer) which, translated, means I make heterogeneous - and sometimes "incompatible" - systems work together. I have been in IT since I was a child, and my service in the United States Navy gave me the training and experience I needed to make a pretty darned good career out of it. I've returned to University to finally get a degree - I don't currently have one and have reached the highest position I can without it.
I have been maintaining servers of one form or fashion since 1993. My first systems were HPUX and Sun Solaris 2.0. I set up my first Red Hat server in 1998 to serve as the DNS, web, ftp and file server for the Commander, US Navy Central Command. While at that station, I was appointed the Information Systems Security Officer, and was eventually recognized as having the most secure network in Central Command in 2000.
I have maintained CentOS (and Windows) servers in one flavor or another since 2003, and have just started the transition at my workplace to a virtualized infrastructure built on F19 and oVirt. As part of that transition, I have moved our file server from Windows to a CentOS 6.5 server with Samba, pulling the data from another CentOS server via iSCSI. I've also deployed a F20 server to fill the role as a local repository, and another server as our first central identification and authorization using FreeIPA. There is also another instance in production serving double duty as the DNS server (integrated with the FreeIPA server) and eJabberd for a local network IM service.
On a separate network, I am running a pure CentOS environment doing DNS, web (with trac), file, IM, svn (moving to git), and three CentOS machines doing nothing but virtual hosting for test instances built on QEMU and libvirt. This network, while pure in and of itself, is in parallel with a Windows network that my developers work from. We are moving away from Windows based development environments to Fedora, so I can eventually call my network a pure Linux network.
In short, I am a maintainer of servers, and use them in my daily duties at my day job; I am an end-user of the product. My weakness in the Fedora community, however, is that I am not a developer. It's not what I do, I don't want to do it. I make the systems available for the developers to do their job. To that end, I am very good at what I do.
I feel that I would bring insight and ideas to the WG as an end user of the product - a voice that needs to be heard by any development project. It wouldn't do very good to build a product that isn't wanted, or worse, even needed.
Regards, Dan
On Tue, 2014-04-29 at 19:50 -0500, Dan Mossor wrote:
I feel that I would bring insight and ideas to the WG as an end user of the product - a voice that needs to be heard by any development project.
Thanks for this. I was debating throwing my hat in the ring for the very same reason, but my schedule is overloaded as it is.
As a sysadmin using Fedora, I would love to see a highly motivated end-user on the WG.
Jonathan
On Apr 30, 2014, at 2:39 AM, Jonathan Dieter jdieter@lesbg.com wrote:
On Tue, 2014-04-29 at 19:50 -0500, Dan Mossor wrote: I feel that I would bring insight and ideas to the WG as an end user of the product - a voice that needs to be heard by any development project.
Thanks for this. I was debating throwing my hat in the ring for the very same reason, but my schedule is overloaded as it is.
As a sysadmin using Fedora, I would love to see a highly motivated end-user on the WG.
This has no bearing on the selection, but I would like to point out that David Strauss was selected to be on the WG back at the beginning to represent this exact interest and has been doing an admirable job of it, from my perspective. That said, it is never a bad idea to have more such voices (particularly if their target audiences are different).
Dan: would you mind taking a look at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Server/Personas and see if you can self-identify there? That would be a useful bit of insight.
On 04/30/2014 04:57 AM, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
Dan: would you mind taking a look at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Server/Personas and see if you can self-identify there? That would be a useful bit of insight.
I've perused it when y'all first developed it, but to be honest I haven't revisited it in quite a while. I will drop by the page later today and add what, if anything, I can.
Regards, Dan
On 04/30/2014 08:05 AM, Dan Mossor wrote:
On 04/30/2014 04:57 AM, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
Dan: would you mind taking a look at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Server/Personas and see if you can self-identify there? That would be a useful bit of insight.
I've perused it when y'all first developed it, but to be honest I haven't revisited it in quite a while. I will drop by the page later today and add what, if anything, I can.
Regards, Dan
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Dmossor/ServerWG-persona
On Wed, 2014-04-30 at 05:57 -0400, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
On Apr 30, 2014, at 2:39 AM, Jonathan Dieter jdieter@lesbg.com wrote:
As a sysadmin using Fedora, I would love to see a highly motivated end-user on the WG.
This has no bearing on the selection, but I would like to point out that David Strauss was selected to be on the WG back at the beginning to represent this exact interest and has been doing an admirable job of it, from my perspective. That said, it is never a bad idea to have more such voices (particularly if their target audiences are different).
I do want apologize if my last message gave the impression that I'm unhappy with how the WG is currently composed or the direction it's moving in. That wasn't my intention at all.
Jonathan
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