[gentoo-server] Gentoo Infrastructure seeking additional help

[Kurt Lieber]

All --

I'm posting this here given the target audience of this list.

The Gentoo Infrastructure team is seeking one or two additional volunteers
to assist with maintaining the servers that support the Gentoo Linux
project.  Our primary needs right now are for people with one or more of
the following skill sets:

* Intermediate to expert level knowledge in either bash, python or perl,
  ideally with a focus on system administration
* Expert level knowledge of Linux system administration

I want to stress that we need people who really know what they're doing.  I
would love to bring on some more junior people and help them learn and
grow.  At a later time, I'm hopeful we'll be able to do that.  However, our
strongest need right now is for experienced folks.  We have a network of 20
some servers and while some aspects of it are quite sophisticated and
complex, other areas still need some love and attention.

Time requirements are quite flexible, but we typically ask folks to commit
to at least 5 hours per week.  Most of our communication is done via IRC,
so you should be willing to use IRC as well.

Another, smaller project we need assistance for is tinkering on and
improving our eggdrop bot in IRC, which we use to notify us of various
things and happenings.  This requires at least some knowledge of Tcl. The
time requirements for this position are much more flexible as it is more of
a project-driven role.

Benefits for joining the infrastructure project are working with a very
fun, laid-back group of people, learning different ways of doing things as
well as teaching others your way of doing things and also your own shiny
gentoo.org address. 

If you're interested in helping out, please contact me off-list and I'll
provide more details.

Thanks.

--kurt