[admin] Re: common-lisp.net admin position

[Erik Enge]

Drew Crampsie of Tech Coop has taken over the day-to-day
administration tasks of common-lisp.net.  Thanks for the interest,
it's great to see the support available!

Thanks,
Erik.

On 9/25/07, Elliott A. Johnson <elliott at iparadigms.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Just following up on this as I haven't seen nor heard any mention of the position being filled on common-lisp.net or planet.lisp.org.  I am still interested in helping out if you need it.
>
> Here's a little more background information on me:
>
> I'm senior sysadmin for a company called iParadigms, which does plagiarism detection for universities and publishers.  I work primarily with the CIO, Emmanuel Briand, in planning and implementing the IT infrastructure for our R&D department to use in developing our various web services.  We maintain a farm of 350 servers across two co-locations that serve the websites turnitin.com, ithenticate.com, and plagiarism.org.  I work at the main office in downtown Oakland (about 4 blocks from Franz Inc.) and live in the Jack London Square area which is comfortable walking distance to work.
>
> Some of the items I'm in charge of are our monitoring and trend analysis (nagios and cacti), a PXEboot imaging install system that I built based on gentoo linux, maintaining a sitewide configuration via cfengine, an internal database I created for keeping track of all our IT hardware resources (using clsql (postgresql socket) and a hunchentoot web frontend :), all the linux debugging I can shake a stick at, and a ton of small admin odd-n-ends like our mail server (Zimbra), scm repos (svn/trac and git), ticketing (RequestTracker), and dns (djbdns).  We are an entirely open source shop and I though admining for common-lisp.net would be a cool way to give back even if it was just running a few shell scripts.
>
> Anyways, I'm not a fan of blowing my own horn, but if you are still looking for someone I hope this helps you make a decision.  If you'd like to talk in person my cell phone number is (510)735-4834.  Thanks again,
>
> -E
>
> --
> Elliott Johnson
> SysAdmin
> iParadigms, LLC developers of Turnitin and iThenticate
> 1624 Franklin Street, 7th Floor
> Oakland, CA 94612
> p +1.510.287.9720 x 251
> f +1.510.444.1952
> e elliott at iparadigms.com
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Elliott A. Johnson" <elliott at iparadigms.com>
> To: admin at common-lisp.net
> Sent: Monday, September 10, 2007 10:07:38 PM (GMT-0800) America/Los_Angeles
> Subject: common-lisp.net admin position
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm interested in and qualified for the position.  I used to write more lisp code when I was in college than I do now.  I've contributed to climacs and cl-gordon, but currently I sysadmin and make internal tools.
>
> I find occasional places to use lisp in that area, but programming out of work I mostly play with learning web tools like ht-ajax.  I've been looking for a way to give back for all the vital material I've seen on planet lisp.
>
> A couple of question for you are  How much maintenance is usually involved?  Is this position more of a docent or does it involve decision making about hosting,etc? Thanks for the opportunity.
>
> --
> Elliott Johnson
> SysAdmin
> iParadigms, LLC developers of Turnitin and iThenticate
> 1624 Franklin Street, 7th Floor
> Oakland, CA 94612
> p +1.510.287.9720 x 251
> f +1.510.444.1952
> e elliott at iparadigms.com
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