[Noisebridge-discuss] Access to the calendar?

[Asheesh Laroia]

On Thu, 23 Apr 2009, Jacob Appelbaum wrote:

> I don't think you should have to nag someone. However, I really think 
> you should present a pretty clear idea of what needs to be done. 
> Something like, this code, this version, here's why, here's the risk, 
> here's the reward, I have beer and kisses for your work, etc.
>
> To be clear though, I'm not the final arbiter of this, Andy and others 
> can just as easily do that work too. I find in practice though, the 
> above is a good guideline for getting people to do work for the group. 
> Especially on the main group server.
>
> I'm more than happy to do both plugin installs if you point me at both 
> code bases and help drive the process. We can do the install together or 
> you can drive it yourself.

I've emailed my SSH key to Jake and we'll see if I can help out with some 
of the sysadmin duties.

(For anyone else who wants to add me to anything: 
http://www.asheesh.org/pub/ssh_keys (verify at 
http://www.asheesh.org/pub/ssh_keys.asc ).

> I'm more than happy to have you become more involved with sysadmin work. 
> It's like painting a fence, it's tons of fun!

Oh, believe me, I know.

> I suspect that you, Andy and myself would need to meet to ensure we have 
> similar ideas of being an admin on the box. I'm more than happy to 
> spread out the responsibility for those services and for those servers 
> but I want to balance that with risk. I don't want the box to get owned 
> because someone tosses up a matts form mail script.

A conversation from 2000, when my friend gets back from USA-Canada Math 
Camp 2000:

Friend> "...and I met this awesome guy named 'mrwright'."

Asheesh> "Cool."

Friend> "His name is Matt Wright. Not Matt Wright of Matt Wright's 
Scripting Archive."

(Friend was telling the truth.)

Oh, beloved formmail.

Anyway, while I have y'all's attention: My main server is rose.makesad.us. 
I've put love and care into it, and if you (or anyone) asks it for an SMTP 
banner, it tells you:

$ telnet rose.makesad.us 25
220 rose.makesad.us ESMTP Postfix (Debian/GNU): "every tragedy is a beauty 
that has passed"

Sweet dreams, San Francisco.

-- Asheesh.

P.S. ca. 40GB of Geocities downloaded, and counting.

-- 
Profanity is the one language all programmers know best.